A writer lives, at least, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any
feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of
wonder at it all. To transmit that feeling, he writes.
- William Sansom
Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.
- Robert Penn Warren
The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.
- Marcel Proust