Cases Quote by Philip Pullman

Your literary style reflects your personality.

— Louis Auchincloss

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor…

— J. M. Coetzee

For me the path to the literary goes through the non - literary. For this reason it surprises me that I am a writer,…

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.

— Michael Ian Black

I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian…

— Dawn French

I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.

— Robert Metcalfe

Maybe someone's who's a different kind of writer [would think otherwise] - someone who'd be just as comfortable writing essays on what their novels…

— Chang-Rae Lee

“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. If a writer can make people…

— Ernest Hemingway

“…Here we come close to one of the definitions of literary fiction. Even the best kind of popular novel just comes straight at you;…

— Martin Amis

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

— Wole Soyinka

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished…

— Terry Eagleton

“Writing is about allowing yourself to become a vessel of creativity. Writers are avatars of creation. We have tender hearts, and strong emotions. It's…

— Sai Marie Johnson