Appalachia Quote by Donald Ray Pollock

I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.

— Leo Ornstein

“People visit exposed and vulnerable; writers live there”

— Alisa Hope Wagner

If I wrote in Michael Harrington's time, roughly 50 years later when he published 'The Other America', I'd still be writing about poverty and…

— Matthew Desmond

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that.…

— Jimmy Buffett

Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures.

— Giles Foden

Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write…

— Alden Nowlan

“Writers by affliction are an idiosyncratic lot.”

— Ken Goldstein

I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore.

— Errol Morris

I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took…

— Tom Robbins

I think many writers really believe that being published is a traumatic experience.

— Lynne Tillman

In a time of crisis, there is rational tendency to turn to the writer.

— A. B. Yehoshua

I think writers like old cities and are made very nervous by new cities.

— Donald Barthelme