Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes

I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.

Elizabeth Gaskell

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• I am not an autobiographical writer.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Writer
  • Autobiographical

• Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Fiction

• Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Try
  • Fiction
  • Short

• I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Money
  • Job
  • Always

• What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Hate
  • Better
  • Author

• I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Writer
  • Pay
  • Wrote

• Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Hair
  • Writer
  • Just

• If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writer
  • Dead
  • Hostility

• It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Rich
  • More
  • Writer

• I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • Writer
  • Just
  • Reader

• Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Find
  • Same
  • Fiction

• 'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Life
  • Real
  • Reality

• I'm not a great writer.

  

  E. L. James
  • Great
  • Writer
  • Great Writer

• Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Freedom
  • Chance

• I'm a very conceptual writer.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Writer
  • Very
  • Conceptual

• I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Writer
  • Storyteller

• Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Think
  • Science
  • Fiction

• When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • First
  • Say
  • Writer

• I guess it was easier for me to find my voice in poetry than it was in fiction. I'm working on fiction again, and I find it a lot more difficult. It's a struggle. At a certain point, you have your voice and you go to it every time, so it's not like reinventing the wheel. That's the way I see it at least.

  

  Barbara Hamby
  • Way
  • Poetry
  • Struggle

• I think it's amazing to have one writer write every episode of a series. It's very rare, I think. You get a voice that continues.

  

  Harry Treadaway
  • Writer
  • Series
  • Episodes

• One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Time
  • World
  • Age

• It was the momentary yielding of a nature that had been disappointed from the dawn of its perceptions, but had not quite given up all its hopeful yearnings yet.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Disappointed
  • Perceptions
  • Yielding

• I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can call to mind, as I hope to go to heaven!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Support
  • Heaven
  • Advice

• I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Writer
  • Fiction
  • Biography