Books Quote by Edward St Aubyn

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

— Wentworth Dillon

Choose an author as you would a friend.

— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

— E. B. White

“A great writer is the friend and benefactor of his readers.”

— Macaulay

In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.

— Leo Tolstoy

“A writer is a dangerous friend. Everything you say, all of your life and experience, is fodder for our writing. We mean you no…

— Randy Murray

As an unpublished, nonprofessional writer working on my first novel, I nevertheless had access to extremely talented people who would help make my manuscript…

— Chris Pavone

The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and everybody. The…

— William Saroyan

“Book reviewer: Very often a writer who has never been published taking out their frustrations on a writer who has.”

— Raul Ramos y Sanchez

Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without…

— Sloane Crosley

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

— Jerzy Kosinski