Books Quote by Tinsley Mortimer

I used to write fiction, non-fiction, fiction, non-fiction and have a clear pattern because I'd need a break from one style when going into…

— Zoe Foster Blake

Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay.

— Ali Smith

When you become published and become a reviewer, piles of books come along and you are pushed by fashion and what you are commissioned…

— Hilary Mantel

There is nothing wrong with a writer who has a distinct style in book after book, but I am not interested in repeating myself.

— Jay Neugeboren

Well, I'm very much a literary person. And my fashion always tells a story somehow. I never look at fashion magazines. I find them…

— Vivienne Westwood

Great fashion is all about surprise. It should always be about doing something that isn't by the book.

— Reed Krakoff

Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.

— Fay Weldon

I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.

— Dave Eggers

I was never so directly inspired by fashion. It always came from somewhere else.

— Helmut Lang

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.

— Vivienne Westwood

Publishers send me a lot of first novels because my first novel was the defining novel of my career, and I guess a lot…

— Jay McInerney