Books Quote by Terry Pratchett

I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great…

— Erskine Caldwell

I've got my own philosophy. People who write books have different philosophies. You read too many people and you get screwed up.

— George Blanda

Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when I'm alone. But when one is elevated into the stature…

— Ashwin Sanghi

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others

— Virginia Woolf

And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?

— Djuna Barnes

When you're a writer, sometimes you have to spend time poking at a part of yourself that normal, sane people leave alone.

— Vikram Chandra

I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a…

— Neil Gaiman

I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind.

— Emma Healey

As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the…

— Alan Ayckbourn

I think I don't view myself as an author. I view myself as a person. I view anything as part of being a person,…

— Tao Lin

In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God:…

— Gustave Flaubert

I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the stuff he's…

— Jorge Luis Borges