Break Quote by Ferdinand Mount

A column is a curiously intimate affair. For a start, you know by default that you will have regular readers, so it gives the…

— Monty Don

I used to give her [my wife] to read the column every week before I sent it to the editors. And sometimes she was…

— Sayed Kashua

David Simon is a brilliant writer, brilliant at being able to take what is ordinary and make it extraordinary.

— Wendell Pierce

“If you want to write, here's a secret: the writer's struggle is overrated, a con game, a cognitive distortion, a self-fulfilling prophecy, the best…

— Roy Peter Clark

I wrote the column. I - you know, - the column simply said that [Clay] Felker is destroying this paper. And I heard that…

— Nat Hentoff

“Columnists write not just because they have something to say but also because they have to say something.”

— John Grimond

It's people stories that make good reading. I don't feel like I'm a sportswriter. I feel like I'm a guy who writes about people…

— Rick Reilly

You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.

— Wallace Shawn

So much of writing is about what characters don't say, and in the early drafts, sometimes things get overwritten.

— Peter Hedges

Written with passion, honesty, humor, and a stubborn, rebellious optimism, Dear Marcus is like nothing I've ever read. When a bullet in the back…

— Shalom Auslander

My favourite writers are columnists.

— John Cooper Clarke

We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead…

— Julia Cameron