Fiction writers Quote by James Gunn

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their…

— Mel Brooks

There's a truth that comes through when an author performs his own work that is unique and special.

— Michael Feinstein

Ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she is.

— William Zinsser

Writing is transmogrifying, not just for the reader but also for the author; an author becomes someone he or she isn't by living the…

— Robert J. Sawyer

“Those who would like to become writers attend courses on writing poetry and prose and analyze their own work and that of other writers…

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

The writer has a life and a personality but the problem of today is that most of those writers have exactly the same life;…

— Pascal Bruckner

Just like writers can have a lot of different styles, so can readers. It's hard to pigeonhole book buyers.

— Kevin Sampsell

It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person.…

— Irvine Welsh

That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.

— Erica Brown

Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.

— Anthony Horowitz

Never forget that the truest luxury is imagination, and that being a writer gives you the leeway to exploit all of the imagination's curious…

— Andrew Solomon