Aptitude Quote by Agatha Christie

Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's imagination as…

— Alan Bennett

“When you're writing a book with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary, because they…

— Roald Dahl

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people.

— Henry Williamson

Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting;…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.

— Henry Williamson

Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.

— Anthony Horowitz

Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. They seem…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

“One of the shining exceptions in personalities is that writers do not need to be charismatic in their own persons; they are free to…

— Criss Jami

“Writers are creatures of habit, as are humans, but writers aren’t necessarily human, are they?”

— Alyssa Hubbard

“The only real people are the people who never existed, and if a novelist is base enough to go to life for his personages…

— Oscar Wilde

Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There's a strong streak of egomania coupled with extreme shyness. Writing's kind of like exhibitionism…

— David Foster Wallace