Accounts Quote by James Payn

Reviewers try to square the antics of a writer's life with the antics in the fiction. Even satirical verbal play is too often read…

— Joanna Scott

The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.

— William C. Bryant

In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers.

— Walter Benjamin

“If I was an author I'd be worried, as I'm a story teller I'll just get drunk and make it up as i go…

— Glenn Scrimshaw

A writer is supposed to have anonymity.

— Joss Whedon

This isn't a dig on journalists, but people like to write about the 'death of blank.' The death of something.

— Sean Hayes

That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the…

— James Frey

“If the original of any of your characters would win a libel case against you, you have failed to create a real character.”

— John Braine

“When many story-tellers occupy themselves with a social world which offers no great variety of lively action, their stories will probably resemble one another…

— Mary Lascelles

The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to the point…

— Robin McKinley

He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The shoddy writer wants only publication. He fails to recognize that almost anyone willing to devote between twelve and fourteen hours a day to…

— John Gardner