Age Quote by Paul Auster

It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person.…

— Irvine Welsh

One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to describe the…

— Lynne Truss

They may recognize themselves in what you're writing, and then they have to say, "Well, she doesn't see me as I see myself." All…

— Vivian Gornick

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.

— Mohsin Hamid

I think writer is a word without gender, and a good writer observes, absorbs, hopefully empathizes then translates that into character and story. You…

— Nora Roberts

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. Its always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

— Matthew Nable

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It's always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

— Matthew Nable

But I always need to identify with a character to write about him or her - and by 'identify,' I mean see the world…

— Jennifer Egan

When you haven't met someone, regardless of whether they're an author or not, when you're taking their work, and you are in some way…

— Laeta Kalogridis

I don't care whether they're men or women, that's bullshit. A good writer can get into any gender, can get into any mouth. When…

— Patti Smith

We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look…

— Paul Haggis

It's a scary thing for fiction writers, when you're always writing from the point of view both as and for someone who is different.

— Alice Mattison