Adjustment Quote by Walter Kirn

“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

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

— Irwin Shaw

“People have an idea of what writers are: crazy; intellectual; moody; slightly more interesting than other people. Sometimes you just have to throw a…

— Alistair Cross

“Authors are really polite and down to earth, it's just people always have a sarcastic and bully approach towards them. There is nothing wrong…

— Himmilicious

“I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced”

— Agatha Christie

There are two sides to me. One is the writer. That's a savage person who looks at everything as a story and, you know,…

— Walter Kirn

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

— Anonymous

In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary…

— Will Self

All writers are insecure, the male ones especially. It's well known. Why else would they spend so much time on make-believe? They're only happy…

— Philip Sington

Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the…

— Cyril Connolly

“Artists are dishonest creatures really. They foist their version of reality upon us while making it all up. Writers, painters, musicians, auteurs—they’re all the…

— Anonymous

I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.

— Carson McCullers