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“ Marginalia Sometimes the notes are ferocious, skirmishes against the author raging along the borders of every page in tiny black script. If I…

— Billy Collins

I don't want to be a commentator of my own work. If you've written the story, you've said what you want to say.

— David Means

I'm interested, obviously, in what viewers have to say. And obviously as a journalist I want to have my finger on the pulse. But…

— Alisyn Camerota

The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone…

— Kevin Smith

I don't particularly care about having [my characters] talk realistically, that doesn't mean very much to me. Actually, a lot of people speak more…

— Louis Auchincloss

“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

I'm very confident that Nick Hornby always gets it right as a writer. He has the vernacular and passion. He is adroit and dry,…

— Pierce Brosnan

The thing a writer has to avoid is being the 'voice' of his people and pretending he can speak for them.

— Derek Walcott

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest…

— Thornton Wilder

It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement,…

— Abraham Cowley

Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues, and so…

— H. L. Mencken

Wit and humor seem to always factor into this - there's a tongue-in-cheek tone you get when you take on a formalist story -…

— Alexander Weinstein