Identity Quote by Bonnie Jo Campbell

I am interested in people, and I am interested enough in people that I want to be friends with a lot of people and…

— Lynne Tillman

I'm not that interested in writing for myself. That's not where my impetus as a writer comes from.

— Zoe Kazan

I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be…

— Jerry Spinelli

I'm finding things out about myself as a person - as a writer - as I write, and so are the people who listen…

— John Darnielle

I tend to write from a personal place, and most of the time when I'm writing by myself, it's coming from something I've experienced.

— Aubrie Sellers

Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested…

— Eric Brown

I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process.

— St. Lucia

As a writer, I don't have a sense of my own position. I try to disappear and not to think of myself at all…

— David Milch

When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract…

— Hannah Kent

I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else

— Laurell K. Hamilton

A lot of my writing is basically about observation, and things that I've seen, either through personal experiences or the experiences of people around…

— John Trudell

I'm just not that comfortable writing so much about myself.

— Mike Wallace