Composing Quote by Rebecca West

We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.

— Ann Patchett

However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that…

— Wally Lamb

I can't be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating us at…

— Lionel Shriver

Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers…

— Paul Auster

There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that book on.…

— James Laughlin

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.

— Justin Cronin

I think writers tend to hear a different message from the ones our friends and acquaintances intend. We see what's revealed, which makes us…

— Tom Barbash

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

Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

— Wole Soyinka

If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being.

— Albert Einstein

I've never talked to anyone writing a book on me. I've had so much written about me that is made up, usually something that…

— Warren Beatty

I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work. I think this is very true of…

— William Golding