#writer

Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#everything #nobody #writer

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#danger #fiction #may #more #readers

I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#admire #again #alice #ask #i

Writers speak stench. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#stench #writers

It's been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with readers and other writers. Egalitarian, wide open, like the Wild West! ↗

— Greg Bear

#contact #egalitarian #get #great #like

No language is rude that can boast polite writers. ↗

— Aubrey Beardsley

#language #polite #rude #writers

It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#cynical #depressing #extremely #i #known

While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#agree #aspects #even #going #humorous

I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit. ↗

— William Bell

#artist #bit #creating #design #different

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody. ↗

— Peter Bichsel

#i #i am #knew #nobody #novel