Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

Clive James

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_James

A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.

Will Self

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Self

Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs.

Christopher Hampton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hampton

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

Cyril Connolly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Connolly

When you sell a man a book, you don’t sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life.

Christopher Morley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Morley

The way British publishing works is that you go from not being published no matter how good you are, to being published no matter how bad you are.

Tibor Fischer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibor_Fischer

Being a writer in Hollywood is like going into Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest with a great idea for a Bar Mitzvah.

David Mamet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mamet

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

William Saroyan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Saroyan

Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

Frederic Raphael

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Raphael

All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person.

Jean Rhys

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Rhys