Doe Quote by Chantal Kreviazuk

I write a lot about other people, like family and friends. I look at their lives and relationships and think, 'Well, if I was…

— Dionne Bromfield

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 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

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.

— Charlie Kaufman

When I write for myself, I think about myself and draw from my own experience.

— Bonnie McKee

I'm not much interested in my own self when I write. I'm interested in what I observe out there, what's going on around me.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

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

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

Mostly I'm writing about people, so I feel constrained to take with me my view of people, my curiosity about how people choose the…

— Raymond E. Feist

When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in…

— Salman Rushdie

When you're writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising - to the extent that you can be - about yourself. I know…

— Rob Lowe

The average person might articulate them differently, but we all think about interpersonal relationships in one way or another. Writers just express that in…

— Jennifer Egan