About Quote by Zadie Smith

Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material…

— Terry Brooks

Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

— Peter Carey

It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.

— C. S. Lewis

People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist…

— Iris Murdoch

As a young kid I assumed that everybody was sort of on the same wavelength as I was and then I found out in…

— George Saunders

It's a scary thing for fiction writers, when you're always writing from the point of view both as and for someone who is different.

— Alice Mattison

Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they…

— Anne Sexton

Don't all writers have a hidden nerve, call it a secret chamber, something irreducibly theirs, which stirs their prose and makes it tick and…

— Andre Aciman

“If there's another writer, like Ross McDonald or Raymond Chandler, and all they're writing are mysteries, they won't be accepted," he said. "And that's…

— Walter Mosley

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

— Flannery O'Connor

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

— John Irving

“An author has to fit into the skin of her characters, to imagine being trapped by unfortunate and sometimes violent circumstances she herself has…

— Loretta H. Marion