Again Quote by Scott Turow

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

— Anita Brookner

'Presumed Innocent' was written over a six to seven year period with intervals in between where I was figuring out the end of the…

— Scott Turow

There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer…

— William Saroyan

I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant…

— Don DeLillo

“An author has to fit into the skin of her characters, to imagine being trapped by unfortunate and sometimes violent circumstances she herself has…

— Loretta H. Marion

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is true that novelists are shameless and obey no decent law, and they are not to be trusted on any account, but some…

— Catherynne M. Valente

I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to…

— Jane Austen

It is possible that the malice of writers has been overrated (by myself among others). Reading their ruminations on their craft, one sees why…

— Wilfrid Sheed

The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.

— Flannery O'Connor

Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the only normal writer left on earth -- and it is this that adds to his isolation…

— Malcolm Lowry

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

— Nelson Algren