Books Quote by Chang-Rae Lee

I think most writers can't really think about their work without a kind of revulsion. And I think that's probably why we keep going…

— Paul Auster

I think that all writers feel alienated. ... I know that I do. ... I still feel, as I think most creative people do, absolutely isolated.

— John le Carre

I became much more interested in plot when I really didn't consider myself a writer anymore. When I was in an art context and…

— Vito Acconci

I think something many of us grapple with are those times we dread the practice of writing, no matter the project.

— Ben Doller

For writers, so much is done in isolation. It can be easy to feel detached, or to get a little lost along the way.

— Brad Listi

The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious (though it…

— Andrei Codrescu

Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.

— Edward M. Lerner

Every single path is so different, but I would definitely say that the idea of what a writer is or should be is not…

— Anna Todd

One of my friends who writes novels says that once the book is published, it's a separate thing from you; it becomes its own.…

— Jill Talbot

You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.

— Salman Rushdie

I'm bothered, as a reader, when I feel the writer is filling in too much. Again, whether it's nonfiction or fiction, I think writers…

— Lynne Tillman

Writers are used to being re-created, and need it.

— Anonymous