Changed Quote by Dan Simmons

One of the biggest drawbacks of our industry is that we haven't nurtured our writers for years. Now, we realise we need to but…

— Kabir Khan

I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This…

— Steven Moffat

I've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. But it hasn't been in the same form. I used to write scripts…

— Steve Martin

I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age, struggling on…

— Toni Morrison

I've always been a writer. I started getting paid for writing in college. Where it transitioned from commentary to journalism was in that shift…

— Melissa Gira Grant

Writers are much better behaved nowadays, for a couple of reasons. Once upon a time nobody was thinking of a career, unless you lived…

— Margaret Atwood

It's OK just to be a writer, who writes about the society in which he lives and the issues that most important. Now how…

— Arundhati Roy

What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence.

— James Frey

I couldn't think about novels at all. It seemed the only writing that was appropriate to that horrendous event was journalism, reportage. And, in…

— Ian Mcewan

Writers keep writing and publishers publishing - it never grows boring.

— Michael Dirda

Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever.

— Zadie Smith