Appearing Quote by Samuel Johnson

It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect.

— Paul Kingsnorth

I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.

— Julia Child

I'm sure many writers have these strange, tiny little habits.

— Stephen Sondheim

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.

— Joan Didion

“He had started out the way nearly all writers do, and I'd seen it a hundred times--amateurs transformed into gibbering wrecks by actually being…

— Colin Bateman

Among the many inconsistencies which folly produces or infirmity suffers in the human mind, there has often been observed a manifest and striking contrariety…

— Samuel Johnson

Every other writer's process is sort of vaguely scary and appalling.

— Daryl Gregory

Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.

— Anthony Horowitz

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

“I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job.”

— Sara Sheridan

Authors make stuff up. Let's not pretend it's any more magical than that.

— Kameron Hurley

Any writer who pretends to a disaffection for recognition, I think they're being duplicitous.

— Harlan Ellison