About Quote by Justin Cronin

What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.

— Paul Haggis

The novel is a big space, and a lot can happen. Just think about the parts of your life. How do we account for…

— Rachel Kushner

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for…

— Michel de Montaigne

I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we’re unique geniuses, and…

— Scott Lynch

I'm not interested in writers who are overcome with certainty, with single-mindedness, or with a sense of how consistent and morally upstanding they are.…

— Andrew O'Hagan

“The very qualities that make one a writer in the first place contribute to the block: hypersensitivity, stubbornness, insatiability, and so on. Given the…

— John Gardner

people in general are totally unable to detach the personality of a writer from the products of his thinking.

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“What are they like, writers, in your mind: it may seem strange, but initially it’s not about writing. A writer is someone who struggles…

— Christian Bobin

I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave

— Brad Thor

We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of…

— C. S. Lewis

I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other…

— Paul Kane