Bother Quote by Christian Bale

Maybe someone's who's a different kind of writer [would think otherwise] - someone who'd be just as comfortable writing essays on what their novels…

— Chang-Rae Lee

Literary interviews are inevitably packed with the nuts and bolts of how writers do their work, and there's very little that aspiring writers do…

— Ben Dolnick

he asked, "what makes a man a writer?" "well," I said, "it's simple, it's either you get it down on paper or you jump…

— Charles Bukowski

“Nobody ever recommended or even desired that I be a novelist - in fact, some tried to stop me. I had the idea to…

— Haruki Murakami

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

The literary interview won't tell you what a writer is like. Far more compellingly to some, it will tell you what a writer is…

— Martin Amis

“The job of a fiction writer is to engage the reader and rip them from reality.”

— Tom Wiseman

“Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconcile, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among the most…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's…

— Flannery O'Connor

“I met a doctor the other night who told me he had always wanted to be a writer. I nodded. People always tell me…

— Natalie Goldberg

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material…

— Terry Brooks