Littles Quote by Bonnie Jo Campbell

If you're a writer, the insight of other writers - if there's some kind of Holy Grail message on how to deal with writer's…

— Jim Rash

When I first started out, I was trying to write stories about nurses and lawyers and a lot of people I didn't know anything…

— Donald Ray Pollock

Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and true. Day…

— Timothy Egan

I write a lot about disadvantaged people, particularly vulnerable children, because I feel that that's who I was. That is familiar terrain for me.…

— Charles M. Blow

I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people.

— Julian Barnes

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political…

— Isabel Allende

I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.

— Jerry Spinelli

I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to. And often seem to write about situations that are…

— Kenneth Lonergan

I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then it is…

— Etgar Keret

Nobody ever wrote a story for me. I told in every story what was really inside my gut, and it came out that way.…

— Jack Kirby

I've always liked elliptical writing, whether it's Kafka or Paula Fox, and I'm often bored by writers who explain too much. I think that…

— Lynne Tillman

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always…

— Jason Robert Brown