Capable Quote by Clancy Martin

Even in an intensely mediated world, in a world that offers at least the illusion of radical self-invention and radical freedom of choice, I…

— Jonathan Franzen

“The human capacity for self-deception is very impressive, often showing breathtaking flights of creativity.   —Jerry L. Horner, Daniel Seligman Research Associate”

— Diana Delonzor

I've been writing all my life. Even though I didn't have sort of careerist aspirations as a writer, it was very much my identity.

— Ayana Mathis

I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn - be…

— Sara Sheridan

Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another.

— James Franco

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and…

— Tim Cahill

As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist.

— John Green

The never-ending competition between writers hasn't changed between 1868 and 2000. I used to belong to writers' workshops with other professionals, but that becomes…

— Dan Simmons

I began to think that the finest modern writer was the screen actor. This was in the spirit of the Fifties where a very…

— Jack Nicholson

I may not have become a good writer, but I managed to make a living out of writing.

— Ruskin Bond

I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal,…

— William Saroyan

“Everything I have written up to now is trifling compared to that which I would like to write and would write with great pleasure...Either…

— Anton Chekhov