Construction Quote by James Patterson

I'm not a writer. I know a lot of writers; I know a handful of really excellent, great ones, and I know what they're…

— David Small

My feeling is that I think writers in general tend to be self-conscious and it takes a bit of a leap of faith or…

— Conor Oberst

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

— China Mieville

A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories…

— James Patterson

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

Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

I think to the degree writers are serious, there is a greater tendency for them to write to themselves, because they're trying to compose…

— Marilynne Robinson

I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether it's good…

— Lisa Edelstein

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

What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

You know, many writers really don't like to write. I think this the chief complaint of so many. They hate to write; they do…

— Harper Lee

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first…

— Gore Vidal