Find Quote by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Sometimes the people around you really affect what you write.

— Susan Tedeschi

The thing that has always baffled me about people's perception of my writing is the sense that I'm a very controversial, opinionated, polarizing person.…

— Chuck Klosterman

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

For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's weird that people can connect to it and like…

— Sampha

I try to write in a way that makes people feel things.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

It sounds funny, but I always try to keep an open mind about what I'm writing about. Sometimes I squeak my opinions in there,…

— John Mellencamp

I have a philosophy that everything you write doesn't have to be good for everybody. There are going to be people that get irritated…

— Sheryl Crow

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

I write what I write and I honestly don't care if it gets on or not. I'm writing to see if I can find…

— Larry Gelbart

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's…

— Robert Sheckley

I write about what worries me and, hopefully, things worry me a little bit earlier than they do some other people, purely because I…

— Steven Knight

There was a really positive environment in my household around a conversation about mental illness, and that helped me never really feel that discomfort…

— Noah Kahan