A writer should never allow himself to be lulled out of the vigilance native to his profession.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
A writer should never mark the page with their own tears.
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
I never wanted to be a writer.
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
I never thought of myself as a writer.
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
I never set out to be a published writer.
I never intended to become a writer.
A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.