For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker. – Gregg Easterbrook
A writer should never allow himself to be lulled out of the vigilance native to his profession. – Howard Jacobson
Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter. – Gerald Brenan
Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father’s deathbed. – Hugh Leonard
I’m a comic writer, in some ways, and a comic person when I’m up at a podium, in order to disguise the fact that in my heart I’m disgustingly earnest. – Gregory Maguire
One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic. – H. G. Bissinger
I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn’t sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job. – Hannah Kent
I’m not a writer’s writer. I’m not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation. – James Patterson
My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He’s an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke. – John Hodgman
Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic. – John le Carre
A writer’s definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That’s the final death. – Jose Saramago