Creatures Quote by Christopher Moore

She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric.

— Michael Cunningham

Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak.…

— Nicole Krauss

She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals with the…

— Ayn Rand

“Socially interacting with a storyteller can be a frustrating challenge because a portion of her awareness is constantly sorting through the details of a…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

They may recognize themselves in what you're writing, and then they have to say, "Well, she doesn't see me as I see myself." All…

— Vivian Gornick

I think each writer has to seek her most energetic prose style. She has to find a way to write so that nobody can…

— George Saunders

“I used to believe, when I was 'just' a reader, that writers, because they wrote books where truth was found, because they described the…

— Julian Barnes

“To be a decent writer you must have both empathy and imagination. While these attributes aid your art, they can plague your soul. You…

— M.J. Rose

I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other…

— Paul Kane

She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in…

— David Mitchell

Writers are outsiders, and usually not by their own choosing. It’s why they’re writers. If they didn’t feel alienated from human experience, they wouldn’t…

— Karen Karbo

“What's crucial is whether your writing attains the standards you've set for yourself. (...) Basically a writer has a quiet, inner motivation, and doesn't…

— Haruki Murakami