Every writer knows that when you're imitating somebody…

Every writer knows that when you're imitating somebody - you know, you're sounding like Faulkner - you're doing pretty good, but your life in…

— George Saunders

“It’s a little known fact, but Hoboken, the Mile Square City, was originally an island in the Hudson River. Of course, its eastern boundary…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan-- Full of gasconade and bravado, But a regular, rich Don Rataplane, Santa Claus de…

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for…

— Donna Tartt

It's impossible to read a distinctive stylist like Faulkner, Joyce, Kafka, Mann, Woolf, James - and many more - without wanting to write, however…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I don’t like doing interviews. I’m not pretending to be some super neurotic, hiding in my closet. I could care less about anybody knowing…

— Jared Leto

“Not everyone who knows how to write can be a writer. Not everyone who knows two languages can be a translator.”

— Nataly Kelly

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an…

— Ernest Hemingway

Any writer knows he has to pay for his compliments. As soon as he has said, Why, thank you, that's very generous of you,…

— Mary Jane Ward

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.

— Willie Morris

It's always incredible though when you feel like the writer knows the character intimately and can see their life sprawling away outside of the…

— Charlotte Ritchie

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.

— Frank Moore Colby

“Art educates. That's why writers must know life. . .If the writer knows life, his work is often progressive, even though his own consciousness…

— slawomir mrozek

No writing effort is ever wasted. At the very least, it's practice, and a writer never knows when he or she might usefully cannibalize…

— Therese Fowler

The writer knows his own worth, and to be overvalued can confuse and destroy him as an artist.

— Charles R. Jackson