I've never thought about the con of living in New York as…

The pre-shoot days are so relaxed and fun and the writers are laughing. I love the rehearsal process.

— Allison Janney

I have come to understand myself as more of a New York writer, or more of a woman writer, but I don't feel like…

— Sloane Crosley

I kind of want to be seen as an American writer, not just a New York writer.

— Jami Attenberg

The thing about living in New York as a writer is that you hit that age where it feels like everyone has a book…

— Mary H.K. Choi

As a writer, I think your first job is to find a subject that you think you and others will find inherently interesting.

— Stuart Blumberg

As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.

— Carlton Cuse

“No, I don’t think my conscience would let me support a strike like that. When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

Ignorance is bliss as a writer, I think.

— John Prine

“What kind of writer are you?” You can’t think of a single sentence that would satisfy Hyong-chol. Your”

— Kyung-Sook Shin

Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you…

— Cameron Crowe

My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel.

— Anne Waldman

To an American writer, I should think it must be a flattering distinction to escape the admiration of the newspapers.

— Frances Trollope

I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just…

— Karen Traviss

The advice I would offer to any writer is that even when you think you have revised your book to the point where you…

— Michael Korda

The first writer that I think of immediately that I studied with at Michigan is Peter Ho Davies. He was really important to me,…

— Jesmyn Ward