Approach Quote by Augusten Burroughs

it is my conviction that the personality of the writer has nothing to do with the literate product of his mind. And publicity in…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

I get so annoyed by famous people who have not actually written the books they slap their names on.

— Anderson Cooper

The trouble is when people read about authors, they don't feel compelled to read the authors' work.

— Donna Tartt

Most people who seek attention and regard by announcing that they're writing a novel are actually so devoid of narrative talent that they can't…

— Paul Fussell

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

— China Mieville

“It's so embarrassing to think that someone is actually interested in what you're thinking. And in that regard, it's almost unbelievable that autobiographies are…

— Oddný Eir

“The quintessential thing to remember is no matter how good of a writer and storyteller you are, you are going to piss off someone…

— K.H. Koehler

“To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

— V. S. Naipaul

I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.

— Bret Easton Ellis

There's something very self-conscious about a writer who's addressing his reader. Don't do that.

— Ewan McGregor

I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.

— Kevin J. Anderson