We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.' John Green
We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience. Joan Didion
When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers. Doris Lessing
When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.Kareem Abdul Jabbar
When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be specifically identified-only our student numbers appeared on the title page. I love that idea and still do. Jonathan Carroll
When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I'm proud to be in this company that way. Eddie Murray
When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound. Paul Auster
Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and I began to scratch my first story on the inside of my mother's womb.' I started later, in my early twenties. Harlan Coben
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game. Margaret Atwood
Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger. Italo Calvino
Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger. Italo Calvino
Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of. Jack Nicklaus