Extensions Quote by Tom Robbins

Novelists are people who have discovered that they can dampen their neuroses by writing make-believe. We will keep on doing that no matter what,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or…

— Christopher Koch

I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really fully either…

— Khaled Hosseini

Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Daniil Kharms,…

— Helen Oyeyemi

Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it kind of…

— Liev Schreiber

I am trying to write novels for properly clever people, but I also want them to be proper novels that also stick in a…

— Sophie Hannah

I get interested in writers who are enigmatic.

— Harry Hamlin

Sometimes what I'm looking for is the thing that will help renew people's interest in a writer that they may have written off as…

— John D'Agata

Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.

— Milan Kundera

Any decent writer writes because there's some deep internal need to keep learning.

— Stephen Jay Gould

“I have my writers’ neuroses but not their talents.”

— Rabih Alameddine