--- title: "4 Writer Turns Quotes by 3 authors" description: "Browse 4 Writer Turns quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Writer Turns sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/04a/pat-conroy-768_armor_here-s-what-i-love-when-a-great-writer-t_187824.jpg" --- > [Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-conroy/here-s-what-i-love-when-a-great-writer-turns-me-into-a-jew-from/) [Pat Conroy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-conroy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/04a/pat-conroy-768_armor_here-s-what-i-love-when-a-great-writer-t_187824.jpg) > [“But the point is, when the writer turns to address the reader, he or she must not only speak to me—naively dazzled…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-r-delany/but-the-point-is-when-the-writer-turns-to-address-the-reader-he-or/) [Samuel R. Delany](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-r-delany/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b4a/samuel-r-delany-2591_books_but-the-point-is-when-the-writer-turns-t_308349.png) > [A writer turns his life into material, and if you’re in his life, he uses yours, too.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/a-writer-turns-his-life-into-material-and-if-you-re-in-his-life-he/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/971/walter-kirn-2189_ifs_a-writer-turns-his-life-into-material-an_1454547.png) > [A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/a-writer-is-someone-who-tells-you-one-thing-so-someday-he-can-tell/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/913/walter-kirn-2189_books_a-writer-is-someone-who-tells-you-one-th_2212590.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writer-turns/#itemlist", "name": "Writer Turns Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or a black woman moving into a subway entrance in Harlem. 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