Life Quote by Michael Chabon

I'm probably a lot closer than perhaps the contents of my early fiction suggest to a jaded Denny's waitress with smoker's-lung-black humor than a…

— Karen Russell

“Oh Roderick,’ gasped Deirdre adoringly. ‘Deirdre, … this will make us famous, so we shall need to look our best. This calls for my…

— Tony Rattigan

When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers about men…

— Andrew O'Hagan

“THE main thing to remember in autobiography, I have always thought, is not to let any damned modesty creep in to spoil the story.…

— Margery Allingham

“All the characters in my book are fictional, but every single one of them was inspired by someone I knew and loved who didn't…

— Sanela Ramic Jurich

“The novel is apparently autobiographical and is being publicised as such but Doust has done with his material what so many autobiographical novelists fail…

— Jon Doust

Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.

— Anthony Horowitz

“The “Howard” in the entry had to be Howard Phillips Lovecraft , that twentieth-century puritanic Poe from Providence, with his regrettable but undeniable loathing…

— Fritz Leiber

“He, the true writer, is the department store dummy at the very center of the whole establishment, the one left alone on display all…

— Allan Gurganus

“He who writes books that aim to convince is a comedian, too, just a comedian. What has he got to offer others, apart from…

— J.M.G. Le Clézio

“He’d had to fold his long legs into his desk. His boots had seen better days, and his jeans unraveled in a curiously irresistible…

— Laura Anderson Kurk

“I never put real people into my fiction -- I can't see the slightest point of that, when I have the alternative of inventing…

— Barbara Kingsolver