Quotes by Baldwin, James

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the pe >>

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows h >>

It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they s >>

Quotations about Writers and Writing

Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our concept >>

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. >>

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society. >>

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

Baldwin, James