Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from Benny Hill. – Julie Burchill
Wherever a writer grew up, they’re obviously influenced by that area, and I’m sure their characters are pulled from those experiences. – Jim Rash
While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer – one haunted by Catholicism. – Julianna Baggott
I’m a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I’m a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again. – Jeannette Walls
Writers seem mesmerized by the state – the temporal entity. The word ‘perestroika’ is impressed somehow on our minds. But that is not the duty of a writer. – Joseph Brodsky
Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works. – John Updike
Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy. – Irwin Shaw
Productivity is a relative matter. And it’s really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer’s strongest books. – Joyce Carol Oates
In Britain I’m sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence. – Julian Barnes
A writer is defined by the language in which he writes, and I would stick to that definition. – Joseph Brodsky
As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently – as if whispering it into one ear – and to know the characters intimately. – Julianna Baggott
Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death. – Cat Stevens