Falconer Quote by Peter Corris

I like the varying rhythm of being a writer that you have a period of being in complete isolation where it's just you and…

— Patrick Marber

As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control.

— Gillian Flynn

Paul Auster is my favourite writer, and I'm sure he'd be a very interesting person to share a journey with.

— Cornelia Parker

I'd be a dope to compare my writing with Wallace Stegner's, but that book probably influenced me in ways I didn't even realize while…

— Elizabeth Crook

The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've covered so much Tom Waits. He's one of my favorite writers. I have a real affinity to how he writes.

— Bob Seger

A good writer must be like the birds of a dark forest; you can't see them, but you can hear their mysterious and wise…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Noah Baumbach writing is really wonderful. I think the way he plays out each character with a unique voice is really impressive, and rhythmically…

— Naomi Watts

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

— Annie Baker

Barrie and the wonderful characters he created, Lewis Carroll, even French literature, like Baudelaire or over in the States, Poe, you open those books,…

— Johnny Depp

It is at least worth arguing that there is a modicum of the creative novelist in all of us, and that this absorption with…

— Humphrey Bogart

I've liked Pete Gurney's writing always.

— Matthew Broderick