Academic Quote by Manuel Puig

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

— A. S. Byatt

In actual fact, I have been an academic - a college and university teacher and scholar - for much of the last 45 years,…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.

— Markus Zusak

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

I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.

— Mohsin Hamid

I was not especially a writer back in college.

— Robert Sapolsky

I tend not to write books that are really, really long, and I'm also a pretty fast writer.

— Elizabeth Berg

I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic…

— Richard Russo

I haven't done a book for about 3 or 4 years now.

— Gerald Scarfe

I don't think I've read any of the books that have been written about me.

— Hillary Clinton

I haven't got a writer's discipline.

— Jim Broadbent

I don't very often read novels.

— Sidney Poitier