Books Quote by Joseph O'Neill

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

— Gore Vidal

A lot of people, I think, harbor some kind of ambition to write a novel - they say, 'One day I'm going to write…

— Alex Garland

I can't be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating us at…

— Lionel Shriver

I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.

— Tim LaHaye

I'm not a writer; I'm not a novelist.

— Ian Gillan

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

— Rachel Kushner

That's why I have to be a fiction writer, because I can't remember what just happened or where I went last week or what…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

— Thomas Keneally

I, as the writer, can be very clear that I am writing a work of heightened fiction, as opposed to documenting horrible things that…

— Bryan Fuller

I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it.

— Nathan Englander

I'm not a writer. I haven't written anything.

— Emma Stone

I don't call myself a writer.

— Bruce Boxleitner