Chicago Quote by Elaine Equi

Music is so important. Because in Chicago it's up to us to tell the stories nobody else will.

— Polo G

“I think that the direction in which a writer should look is around.”

— Dorothy Parker

The job of the writer is to look at where he is now and make some sort of emotional sense of it, not only…

— Colum McCann

I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.

— Anne Enright

I think it's so important for a woman, if she's a writer, to look as feminine as possible.

— Catherine Gaskin

As a writer, you look for inspiration wherever you can get it.

— Michael Connelly

I started writing stories at a young age, but not once did it occur to me that I could grow up to be a…

— Jenny Han

I have written scripts, so I look at a part the way a writer would. That is, I look at it and look to…

— Terry Crews

The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman. Race is…

— Thylias Moss

As a writer, you look for someplace to start. Once you have a beginning and you've written the first two sentences, nothing else will…

— Ronee Blakley

I think the benefit of being a writer is that I'm looking for the subtext on the page, because all good writing has subtext.…

— Richard Dormer

You can tell when a writer moves out of a place of struggle and into a place of comfort, and it's always a bad…

— Eleanor Catton

There are plenty of books that tell you how to become a writer, but not one that suggests how, if you want a normal…

— Hilary Mantel

When people ask what you do, tell them you're a writer. Put yourself on the line. Make a commitment.

— Janet Evanovich

The literary interview won't tell you what a writer is like. Far more compellingly to some, it will tell you what a writer is…

— Martin Amis