Writer Quotes

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

This is much more than your typical thriller. Tim Johnston has written a book that makes Gone Girl seem gimmicky . . . Johnston is an excellent writer.

I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.

The rest of the fraternity is deadwood. Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark.

I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.

Graffiti writers will never stop. They’ll just evolve. It’s interesting what ideas people come up with and how it all extends forward.

You have writers that write about crazy characters, but that doesn’t mean the writer himself is crazy.

I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.

All good writers are sensitive to clichés and endeavor to avoid them

I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.