Biographies Quote by George Plimpton

Reviewers try to square the antics of a writer's life with the antics in the fiction. Even satirical verbal play is too often read…

— Joanna Scott

I certainly do not adore the writer's discipline. I have lost lovers, endangered friendships, and blundered into eccentricity, impelled by a concentration which usually…

— Maya Angelou

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate…

— John Grisham

It's exhausting writing nonfiction, particularly when it's personal. It's tiring, always speaking about things that are not necessarily fun retelling.

— Ishmael Beah

I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.

— Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to…

— S. E. Hinton

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

— Sinclair Lewis

This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege,…

— Charles Lamb

“One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and…

— J. G. Ballard

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

— Brian Lumley

The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing

— Isabel Allende