Bitter Quote by Bill Bailey

“The world of publishing is in crisis. It's no coincidence that the worst published writer in the world today is also one of the…

— Stewart Lee

I think Dan Brown is a terribly bad writer, but he has cliff-hangers after every chapter which makes you continue reading.

— Stellan Skarsgard

Naturally, you don't sit down in "white hot inspiration" and write with a burning flame in front of you. But since I knew I…

— Harper Lee

If people only knew what lies at the heart of my novels! What a tumult of desires these carefully written pages conceal! I sometimes…

— Julien Green

Personally, I am dead against the burning of books.

— Augustine Birrell

“Not all fiction writers are evil, just the ones good at their job. After all, it's not a decent book if it can't make…

— Ellie Rose McKee

Dan Brown and the 'Da Vinci Code' have been around well over a decade now, and to be perfectly honest, both he and it…

— Michelle Dean

“I use Fiction to face Reality And write sweet Stories to avoid the bitter ones.”

— Talia

From the beginning [of the Lincoln in the Bardo], I actually had it in mind not to write a novel. I'd kind of gotten…

— George Saunders

I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant…

— Don DeLillo

There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction.

— Sam Lipsyte

I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't…

— Bret Easton Ellis