About Quote by Jayne Anne Phillips

I don't like people probing into my life, so I reveal as little as possible or lie about it as much as need be…

— David Bowie

Sometimes I observe stuff I haven't been through and write about it. I used to walk my dog with these 50-year-olds, and they'd tell…

— Jorja Smith

Most of the people I write about I'm still in touch with, so I would be loath to make up stuff about them.

— Mary Karr

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

— Ann Beattie

I write about the things that haunt or obsess me.

— Caroline Leavitt

But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.

— Russell Banks

I don't mind if what they write about me has some truth in it. Pure imagination makes me feel sad about the whole thing.

— Shaheer Sheikh

You have to write about what's inside you. If I have to get something out, I'll do it.

— Aesop Rock

A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing about.

— Sacheen Littlefeather

I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.

— Charles de Lint

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

— Virginia Woolf

I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald