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I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a…

— Neil Gaiman

“I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than to those…

— Alain Robbe-Grillet

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring…

— William Stafford

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

— Kanye West

“What are they like, writers, in your mind: it may seem strange, but initially it’s not about writing. A writer is someone who struggles…

— Christian Bobin

A lot of people, I think, harbor some kind of ambition to write a novel - they say, 'One day I'm going to write…

— Alex Garland

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. That means trying to understand, take in, connect with, what wickedness human…

— Susan Sontag

I think it's true that, as is often observed, the writer is always an outsider. A writer is someone who is telling stories about…

— Elif Batuman

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

— Thomas Mann

A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined…

— Walter Kirn

A writer is the one who loves to write . . . on and about anything . . . And this clears that I am a writer!!

— Anamika Mishra

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

— Thomas Mann