Book Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing from a…

— Edna Ferber

You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They…

— Cornelia Funke

I do extensive research before I begin writing, but only a fraction of the research goes into the novels. The writer does not need…

— Edward Rutherfurd

I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.

— Bret Easton Ellis

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A…

— Maurice Blanchot

There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that book on.…

— James Laughlin

It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person.…

— Irvine Welsh

I do feel like that's what a writer does, is he goes into other people's heads.

— George Pelecanos

Maybe someone's who's a different kind of writer [would think otherwise] - someone who'd be just as comfortable writing essays on what their novels…

— Chang-Rae Lee

I think the thing I had to be careful about while writing a book was not to say anything that was revealing about other…

— Mike Birbiglia

“A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I…

— Mark Twain

Writers shouldn't fall in love with their characters so much that they lose sight of what they're trying to accomplish. The idea is to…

— Stephen Coonts