Books Quote by Irvine Welsh

I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?'…

— Irvine Welsh

“If writing novels - and reading them - have any redeeming social value, it's probably that they force you to imagine what it's like…

— Margaret Atwood

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

— Louis Sachar

Only a very specific kind of writer keeps their reader in mind while working. Such writers don't want to irk their readers; they don't…

— Sarnath Banerjee

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

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

Sometimes, I like to imagine the perfect reader - the reader who not just understands what I am about, but soaks up every word…

— Paul Lynch

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

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In…

— Rachel Kushner

People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.

— Monica Ali

“One of the shining exceptions in personalities is that writers do not need to be charismatic in their own persons; they are free to…

— Criss Jami

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros