Another Quote by Colson Whitehead

One of the things my friends would tell you is that I hang out with a lot of non-writers - just regular people like…

— Chang-Rae Lee

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.

— Howard Hodgkin

I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff going on…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I can write anywhere really. I have a hard time writing when the birds are tweeting and the brooks are running outside. I've tried…

— James McBride

It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the…

— Neil Gaiman

I tend to write, either myself, or I sometimes write with a co-writer, my friend that lives up the road. It's usually a relatively…

— Colin Hay

I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any…

— Sara Sheridan

I write about people in small towns; I don't write about people living in big cities. My kind of storytelling depends upon people that…

— Lee Smith

Writing is solitary, so I love going out once in a while and meeting my readers. I'll often hang with them after a signing…

— F. Paul Wilson

There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.

— Lincoln Child

I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my process; I…

— Donald Miller

I live in Greenwich Village in New York City, but I rarely write at home, where there's too much else to do.

— Chris Pavone