Apparently Quote by Amy Bloom

writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.

— Erica Jong

I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa.

— Steve Erickson

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

— Elizabeth Bowen

In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era.

— Nadine Gordimer

We read and remember certain writers because they offer distinctive voices and perspectives, because they've given themselves over completely and passionately to their obsessions…

— Chang-Rae Lee

We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk.

— Gloria Steinem

Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes.

— Christopher Isherwood

Writers, like most human beings, are adaptable creatures. They can learn to accept subordination without growing fond of it. No writer can forever stand…

— Rod Serling

When one chooses to be a writer, psychologically there's a reason for that because you like the isolation and you like to be by…

— Woody Allen

I think many writers write because it's a convenient way to explain themselves to themselves. We take the chaos and the turmoil and the…

— Armistead Maupin

I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they…

— Doris Lessing

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

— Elizabeth Bowen