About Quote by Michelle Dean

The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.

— V. S. Pritchett

Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.

— Charlotte Bronte

An urban novelist never minds a little decay.

— Jane Smiley

Writers are only rarely likable.

— Joan Didion

“Some of the best books published every year are penned by talented writers whose identity the public will never know.”

— Richard Castle

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

— Anatole France

The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.

— Peter Ackroyd

Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics.

— Anthony Burgess

Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

— James Frey

I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

— James Frey

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

— Bryant H. McGill

The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.

— Patricia Duncker