Life Quote by Amos Lee

To be honest, I've never had an easy relationship with being a writer, though I persist.

— Peter Gizzi

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

— Peter Benchley

I don't feel like I'm a writer who works under any influence.

— Lisa Lutz

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

— Kenneth Koch

If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.

— Sadie Jones

I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally make up.…

— Pat Conroy

Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.

— Robert Rodriguez

I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.

— Jeff Bridges

Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go…

— James Laughlin

In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively…

— Tea Obreht

I'm not interested in writers who are overcome with certainty, with single-mindedness, or with a sense of how consistent and morally upstanding they are.…

— Andrew O'Hagan

In the world of book writing, there's a few people, maybe, where you have close relationships. In TV, there are so many more relationships,…

— Megan Abbott