1960s Quote by Earle Birney

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only…

— A. E. van Vogt

There was a period when I wrote in Nashville for Maverick and then Warner/Chappell, and it was interesting.

— Benmont Tench

In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit.

— Christopher Meloni

I've had a somewhat typical experience in that many of the contemporary writers I was exposed to early on were white and often male.

— Laura van den Berg

The one good thing to be said about announcing yourself as a writer in the colonial Canadian fifties is that nobody told me I…

— Margaret Atwood

When I first began writing In the Country of Men all I had was the voice of the protagonist. He intrigued me and my…

— Hisham Matar

A guy named Peter Rabe wrote a batch of books for Gold Medal in the '50s, and he was absolutely the single largest influence…

— Donald E. Westlake

I experimented with my own one-man show a couple of years ago in Aspen when HBO used to have their comedy festival there. I…

— Alan Zweibel

But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes…

— Robert E. Howard

My first book, about Ruby Ridge, was made into a miniseries on CBS in 1996, and since then, I've dabbled in Hollywood, pitched a…

— Jess Walter

I've continued to write fiction since being in television. TV is a different kind of writing, but it's all writing. It was David Milch…

— Kem Nunn

I have a well-balanced show. It's 50/50 on men/women, and also African-American/white writers, it's the same thing. I have four African-American writers, and four…

— Wanda Sykes