Bay area Quote by Adrian Tomine

I can remember in my early days of writing going to sort of writers' functions and parties and things like that, and I used…

— Ronald Frame

My parents were journalists and friends with writers, artists, and just a really interesting assortment of people, so I was exposed to all lifestyles…

— Olivia Wilde

In the beginning, I tried to be a more cosmopolitan writer, but I realized that I was a country boy, and I had to…

— Ernest Gaines

I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

— Patrick Modiano

At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society.

— Helen Garner

After 'Euphoria,' the coolest shift happened. It put me on the radar, that I could maybe act, and it allowed me to sit down…

— Jacob Elordi

I found that almost everyone had something interesting to contribute to my education.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I was encouraged to be imaginative and read, and it was a great childhood for a budding writer because I had the time and…

— Sarah Waters

I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was…

— Kurt Sutter

People didn't know certain things about me, which... I was out of creative writing class in school, Syracuse University; had a B.A. in English…

— Lou Reed

I was really young when I was working on 'Freaks and Geeks.' In a lot of ways, that was the experience that informed a…

— Jake Kasdan

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there…

— Kelley Armstrong