I don’t recall the moment when I officially became a…

My first interaction with Gene was that after I auditioned I walked out of the room and then this big guy walks out with…

— John de Lancie

Most of what has been written about me is one big blur, but I do remember being described in one simple word that I…

— Frank Sinatra

“He’s a writer,” she said, as though this explained everything. “He’s disappeared before?” “He’s emotional,” she said, her expression glum. “He’s always going off…

— Robert Galbraith

A Soviet citizen, an official writer, once said to me: "The day when Communism (that is, well-being for everyone) reigns, man's tragedy will begin:…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.

— John Updike

“Once I was asked be a seatmate on a trans-Pacific flight…what instruction he should give his fifteen-year-old daughters, who wanted to be a writer.…

— Barry Lopez

I have never, ever, not once, met a writer who said he or she would never read a mystery or a story set in…

— Russell Smith

When I was seven and told my mom, 'I'm gonna be a writer,' she said, 'Oh, that's a terrible idea. You'll live in misery…

— Stephen Gaghan

Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.

— Bret Easton Ellis

There is a great quote from a female writer. She said, 'If you don't break out in a sweat of fear when you write,…

— Sally Mann

There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all of my…

— Karin Slaughter

“Never walk over a writer, I said to myself, unless you're positive he can't rise up behind you. If you're going to burn him,…

— Philip K. Dick

He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a…

— Charles Bukowski

“I hear you're a writer,' said 2040..."What are you writing about?' Not liking to discuss my writing with strangers, I had been privately auditioning…

— Phoebe Damrosch