Best Quote by Harry Mathews

I enjoyed writing for someone elses voice, but I wasnt very good at it.

— Anthony Jeselnik

How I became a better writer was that I kept writing.

— Sallie Tisdale

I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone.…

— Patricia Marx

I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.

— E. L. Doctorow

My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my…

— Shakira

I aspire to write like Robert Wyatt. I take a lot of inspiration from the way he writes.

— Weyes Blood

My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever

— Irwin Shaw

I may not have become a good writer, but I managed to make a living out of writing.

— Ruskin Bond

Through all this other stuff I was doing, I always went back to the writing, and it was writing that made me feel whole,…

— Dannah Gresh

What I found so captivating about the idea of being a writer was having the ability to write down all these things I made…

— Kameron Hurley

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

What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write... Maybe the…

— Paul Di Filippo