Asking Quote by Jim Crace

In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions…

— Donna Tartt

Maybe someone's who's a different kind of writer [would think otherwise] - someone who'd be just as comfortable writing essays on what their novels…

— Chang-Rae Lee

A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.

— John Green

I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a…

— Neil Gaiman

Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.

— Amy Lowell

Novels are a safe way to talk about things.

— Jay Asher

I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions.

— Dana Spiotta

The literary interview won't tell you what a writer is like. Far more compellingly to some, it will tell you what a writer is…

— Martin Amis

I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business…

— Agatha Christie

Either a writer doesn't want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want.

— Anatole Broyard

“One must not ask for sincere autobiographies from writers. Fiction was invented precisely to give men the possibility of expressing themselves freely.”

— Lev Shestov

“My message will be very clear; it is that I think we have to continue to read novels. Because I think that the novel…

— Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio