Audience Quote by Erica Jong

“Don't let yourself be amazed by the imagination of a writer and his words, writers are almost all the time in a love-hate relationship…

— Nema Al-Araby

“There is a deeper, more profound reason for this craving for acceptance and glory. Put simply, it's because all writers are fat and/or ugly.…

— Chancery Stone

“Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see our creations…

— Brian A. McBride

“There are no bad writers only people with different taste and opinions”

— Vianka Van Bokkem

Writers have opinions - that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes.

— Frank Delaney

One hates an author that's all author.

— Lord Byron

If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to…

— Douglas Coupland

What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.

— Pat Barker

We read and remember certain writers because they offer distinctive voices and perspectives, because they've given themselves over completely and passionately to their obsessions…

— Chang-Rae Lee

..few writers like other writers' works. The only time they like them is when they are dead or if they have been for a…

— Charles Bukowski

I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there'd…

— Laura Marling

You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They…

— Cornelia Funke