I think Quote by Hisham Matar

The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part…

— Irwin Shaw

I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to…

— Jane Austen

I think that fanaticism is terrific. As long as you don't have to live with it. Oh, yes, nobody should marry a writer.

— Cynthia Ozick

When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

You can tell when a writer moves out of a place of struggle and into a place of comfort, and it's always a bad…

— Eleanor Catton

Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation…

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

— China Mieville

In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary…

— Will Self

I have no objection to well-written romance, but I'd read enough of it to know that that's not what I had written. I also…

— Diana Gabaldon

I always hope to come up with a style of writing that's appropriate to the material and I felt like this was. And then…

— Geoff Dyer

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the awareness that…

— Will Self