#writers

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me. ↗

— William Gaddis

#beyond #books #boredom #come #dying

I think writers are very anxious. ↗

— Helen Garner

#i #i think #think #very #writers

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves. ↗

— Helen Garner

#almost #calm #happened #life #lot

I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#beginning #board #directly #i #i love

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 let themselves be enticed by the language. ↗

— Peter Bichsel

#themselves #writers

Great writers are the saints for the godless. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#great #saints #writers

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing. ↗

— Louise Brown

#commission #doing #other #plenty #publishers

The lot of the bride to be wed before bed desired until rotten. The lot of the author to be read before bed admired then forgotten. ↗

— Roman Payne

#authors #brides #desire #funny #humor