The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.
Italo Calvino
The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more... →
I have never loved any writer as much as Hemingway.
Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness.
Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.
Bruce Campbell
The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.
Albert Camus
Every record, you've got more experiences to draw on as a writer and a musician.
Jerry Cantrell
It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary... →
Jacqueline Carey
Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.
Peter Carey
I don't usually think of my writing as a 'challenge' because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to... →
Melody Carlson