I have always thought that writers come with any variety…

“I thought serious writers smoked like French imports or something.”

— Jake Irons

Writing itself is one of the great, free human activities. There is scope for individuality, and elation, and discovery. In writing, for the person…

— William Stafford

If the writers all come from the same backgrounds, you are going to get the same sorts of characters. Get a broader variety of…

— Sophie Okonedo

My plan is to give new ideas to writers. They will come up with new subjects keeping me in mind.

— Jagapathi Babu

I feel engaged with young people in Pakistan. But that said, it's still a small minority that reads novels, literary fiction. But it isn't…

— Mohsin Hamid

I love working on the fly when the writers come up with new jokes on show nights. It's exciting. I love it so much.

— Allison Janney

I just kind of talk about what's happening in my life and it's kind of like a therapy session. Usually something good comes out…

— Loren Gray

My god, people are selling their work and people are reading it! The horror! That MFA programs have to advertise that they'll let you…

— Tod Goldberg

My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me.

— Amy Tan

I think maybe writers come from different planets. I mean, not in any sense as extravagant as Baryshnikov. But there are some writers who…

— Renata Adler

And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers…

— Stanley Schmidt

The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never…

— Edward Abbey

But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of a working…

— Nick Hornby

“I was at a party in 1989 and Ian McEwan, Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie were sitting on a sofa wondering where the next…

— Jeanette Winterson

Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be…

— Stanley Schmidt