I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my own personality.
Jenny Offill
I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how distilled could I make a life, and how I could... →
What I try to capture as a writer is the feeling of being alive, of being awake.
One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, 'Right. Now I... →
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.
Ben Okri
If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.
Mary Oliver
A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.
Michael Ondaatje
As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.
It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.
Studios, to cut through the clutter, want recognisable titles. But that does not excuse you, as a writer, from having an original story.
Roberto Orci