Connections Quote by Jonathan Franzen

I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.

— Harry Crews

Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet…

— Jonathan Franzen

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

— Anthony Doerr

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people.

— John Grisham

Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

— Ernest Hemingway

It's precisely on the Internet that the majority of the writing is terribly bad and uninteresting.

— Peter Greenaway

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

— Irvin S. Cobb

Yeah, well, we're all writers, aren't we? He's a writer that hasn't been published, and I'm a writer who hasn't written anything.

— Steve Martin

Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he…

— Ernest Hemingway

I suspect that every writer is secretly writing for someone.

— Brewster Ghiselin

I believe that all fiction is personal and all writing is at some level personal.

— Kwame Dawes