Avoiding Quote by Ned Beauman

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

— Kanye West

I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.

— Alan Cheuse

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

— Flannery O'Connor

All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we…

— Martin Amis

When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't…

— Peter York

Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.

— John Banville

Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others,…

— Rebecca Solnit

I find that most books that I don't like are those in which the authors have indulged themselves. I can almost sense when they're…

— Robert Cormier

Only a very specific kind of writer keeps their reader in mind while working. Such writers don't want to irk their readers; they don't…

— Sarnath Banerjee

You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They…

— Cornelia Funke

Don't live with writers. Writers are bastards.

— Warren Ellis

We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them

— Georges Simenon