„I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.“
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„I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.“
— Carlos Fuentes Mexican writer 1928 - 2012
As quoted in International Herald Tribune (Paris, 5 November 1991)
„I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That's right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent.“
— Sherman Alexie, livro The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
„Yes, I was a funny guy for a long time. When I started out, I just wanted to write humor. I wrote humor for kids. My very first book was called How to be Funny. It was about how to get big laughs at the dinner table and how to get laughs in school. Parents hated this book. I wrote joke books, like A Hundred and One Monster Jokes, and other joke books for years. I did maybe a hundred of them. I had a great time, and I did this humor magazine called Bananas for ten years. It was sort of Mad Magazine, but it was all in color, and it was great. That was all I ever wanted to do. I couldn't believe it. When that ended, I figured I would just coast for the rest of my career. That was it. I'd already done what I wanted to do. I had no idea what was coming up.“
— R.L. Stine American writer and producer 1943
Reading Rockets interview http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/stine/transcript hi you know it’s me cardi B
„I was trying to solve the problem of this book. (My Life as a Man) When it seemed I never would, I stopped and wrote Our Gang; when I tried again and still couldn't write it, I stopped and wrote the baseball book; then while finishing the baseball book, I stopped to write The Breast. It was as though I were blasting my way through a tunnel to reach the novel I couldn't write. Each of one's books is a blast, clearing the way for what's next.“
— Philip Roth American novelist 1933 - 2018
Paris Review Interview (1986)
„Werner, nobody will read this book if I don't write bad stuff about you. If I wrote that we get along well together, nobody would buy it. The scum only wants to hear about the dirt, all the time.“
— Klaus Kinski German actor 1926 - 1991
As quoted by Werner Herzog, in My Best Fiend, (1999)
„For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents. The words 'My book,' as in 'I'll put that in it one day,' became a sort of running joke. Eventually she said, 'Look, I don't want to offend you, but you've been saying that for 25 years. If you were going to write a book, you'd have done it. You're never going to do it now. Old vets of 50 don't write books.' So I purchased a lot of paper right then and started to write.“
— James Herriot veterinary surgeon and writer 1916 - 1995
Source: Margolis, Jonathan (Dec. 12, 2002). "But It Did Happen To A Vet". Time Magazine
„Nothing means more to a writer than to get a letter from a reader who has deeply connected to one of your books.“
— Katherine Paterson American children's writer born and mainly raised in China 1932
„I wrote the books I should have liked to read. That's always been my reason for writing. People won't write the books I want, so I have to do it for myself.“
— Clive Staples Lewis Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898 - 1963
As quoted in C.S. Lewis (1963), by Roger Lancelyn Green, p. 9
„Maybe knowledge doesn't accrue, maybe it doesn't happen sequentially. Maybe I need to go back and read Hunger of Memory again. Maybe there's a wisdom that I had in those years that I need to learn from now. And maybe there will be a year when I will have the courage to read that book. When I think about it or when I hear other people talk about it, it strikes me as very naked prose, and I'm embarrassed by it. I'm embarrassed by how much I told you. And people say, "Well you didn't tell us you were gay." Or "You didn't tell us you had all these friends or that you were student body president. You never said that."“
— Richard Rodríguez American journalist and essayist 1944
I think to myself, "My God, but what I told you I've never told anybody. And I'll never tell anybody again."
