Books Quote by James N. Frey

As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.

— David Mitchell

In a time of crisis, there is rational tendency to turn to the writer.

— A. B. Yehoshua

I think writers are very anxious.

— Helen Garner

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

I think most writers can't really think about their work without a kind of revulsion. And I think that's probably why we keep going…

— Paul Auster

I see this with experienced writers, too: They worry so much about the plot that they lose sight of the characters. They lose sight…

— Brian Michael Bendis

What seems real one moment is fiction the next and gone out of existence the moment after that. Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of…

— David Budbill

Because we spent so much time in the writer's room, not even talking about where it goes, but just who the people are in…

— Veena Sud

Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

— Peter Carey

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be…

— Natalie Goldberg

It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you have to…

— Carol Shields

There's a reason why I do anxious characters - it comes from a lot of personal anxiety. The great thing is, having that history,…

— Tony Hale