Contribution Quote by Fred Kaplan

I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

— Patrick Modiano

I've published many biographies over the years and enjoyed working with writers on their research, discussing it, thinking about it and how it revealed…

— Victoria Wilson

Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me.…

— W. P. Kinsella

I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There…

— Haruki Murakami

When I was a boy, I began writing a biography of Shakespeare, and since then I've written a number of biographies of actors and…

— Gyles Brandreth

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there…

— Kelley Armstrong

All good writers inspire me as I have never thought I was any good. As far as a writer who made me think I…

— Henry Rollins

I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal,…

— William Saroyan

The only time I was ever approached to write a book was when I was most famous.

— Justine Bateman

Still, I kept writing. I had no guarantee that I would someday win awards for writing. Heavens, the only person during that time who…

— Katherine Paterson

I started out as a writer of fiction, but nobody wanted to publish my work as a young man. So I decided to put…

— Fred Kaplan

I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.

— Ken Kesey