A. N. Wilson Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.

  A. N. Wilson

  Inspirational, Writing, Annoyed

• I don't write books inadvertently.

  A. N. Wilson

  Book, Writing

  "I'm Mr Evil". Interview with Matt Seaton, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2003.

• My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.

  A. N. Wilson

  Queens, Book, Writing

• If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.

  A. N. Wilson

  Book, Writing, Years

  "AN Wilson: 'Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow'". Interview with William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2012.

• Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.

  A. N. Wilson

  Writing, Shadow, Feels

  "AN Wilson: 'Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow'". Interview with William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2012.

• I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

  A. N. Wilson

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "I'm Mr Evil". Interview with Matt Seaton, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2003.

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