Austen Quote by Ally Carter

All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear of that…

— Jo Nesbo

Writers tend to feel like outsiders.

— Jesse Armstrong

I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.

— Colin Wilson

Not that the writers weren't good. I believe in those books and those writers very much. It's just that in the climate it's really…

— Henry Rollins

Every writer is an outsider.

— Andrew Sean Greer

Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding…

— Gertrude Atherton

I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing…

— Hallie Ephron

Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.

— Mitski

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

— John Irving

Just as we bemoan the passing away of the Great Novel, a great novelist is likely to emerge, perhaps even from Denmark or Switzerland,…

— J. M. Coetzee

I believe a good writer can write a good book with any sort of character, in any sort of setting, but I prefer to…

— Charles de Lint

“I craved a form of naive realism. I paid special attention, I craned my readerly neck whenever a London street I knew was mentioned,…

— Ian McEwan