Admire Quote by Gail Simone

I admire writers who can remain objective and distanced, but that doesn't seem to be in my toolbox, somehow.

— Gail Simone

We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them

— Georges Simenon

Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

— Wole Soyinka

Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the strut and…

— Julianna Baggott

I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that writers need…

— Nadine Gordimer

I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

— Augusten Burroughs

Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.

— Agatha Christie

Increasingly, there are those of us who write from outside the center, and those are the writers that I'm most interested in because they…

— Aminatta Forna

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Writers - human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

— Wole Soyinka

When writers are self-conscious about themselves as writers they often keep a great distance from their characters, sounding as if they were writing encyclopedia…

— Jerome Stern

A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the world.

— Kay Ryan