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Nick Flynn is another writer I admire - his fragmented sections, his playfulness with genre, his urgency. The palette in his work is his…

— Jill Talbot

For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him a formula…

— Northrop Frye

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly…

— Samuel Johnson

“The world is full of people who write poorly but passionately, and others who can put a sentence together but have no feeling behind…

— Kameron Hurley

“Good writers are avid readers. They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks,”

— Steven Pinker

I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.

— Bret Easton Ellis

Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.

— Adrianne Palicki

The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper.

— Mike Greenberg

I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things don't make…

— Leon Uris

The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of…

— William Faulkner

“When dealing with writers it breaks down like this: a regular writer is your average everyday megalomaniac. Like every artist, there's a part of…

— Hannah Strom-Martin