Being the best Quote by Bradley Sands

A hack writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire' literary skeletons…

— William Faulkner

Writer's were supposed to be a litte crazy

— Anonymous

God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.

— Richard Flanagan

Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.

— Nick Denton

“literature can very well describe the absurd, but it should never become absurd itself”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Some days being a writer consists of telling yourself you aren't insane, your characters are.”

— Nevea Lane

“The creative writer is compulsively concrete . . . . His fictional house should be haunted by ideas, not inhabited by them; they should…

— Wallace Stegner

“If a story seems too random, or perhaps too brilliant, for a "madman" to have conceived of it himself, then consider that the "author"…

— Rivka Galchen

“To become better writers we must become the best thieves and liars in the business. We slink around the pages of everyone else’s work…

— Chris Stocking

I get interested in writers who are enigmatic.

— Harry Hamlin

Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting.

— Francois Truffaut

A good writer always works at the impossible.

— John Steinbeck