Deals Quote by Mark Haddon

Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the strut and…

— Julianna Baggott

Humans are very complex; I definitely have a new respect for authors that are able to write books nonstop. It's an incredible talent.

— Hilary Duff

Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they…

— Anne Sexton

Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

— Wole Soyinka

Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear…

— Saul Bellow

Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are a crazy person. We create conflict - for a living. We do this all…

— Joss Whedon

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

There are good writers and bad writers. It's hard to find writers who really speak to you, but the work is out there.

— Colson Whitehead

I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?'…

— Irvine Welsh

I have a great respect for people that write. I don't know how they do it every day... or do novels that they have…

— John Stockton

It used to bother me being portrayed as this bitchy person, but now I feel that the public understands me better than some writer.…

— Jennifer Lopez

A lot of writers write for an audience that's going to understand them.

— Torrey Peters