Good enough Quote by Jennifer Lopez

I often feel like that with the way I portray myself I come off as looking much worse than any of the other characters.…

— Marie Calloway

The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others,…

— Italo Calvino

I'm not fundamentally a writer. I know writers, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them. It bothers me that no matter…

— Marc Maron

It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person.…

— Irvine Welsh

I like to think that I get better and better as a writer, but it seems pretty easy to me to slip on disguises…

— Daniel Handler

I'm a writer. I'm naturally introverted, so being the public face of something, I don't think I do it well.

— Kevin Kwan

I feel like I always learn when I'm writing, even when I'm not writing about myself. I'm careful not to judge; I try to…

— Sarah Gerard

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if…

— Paulo Coelho

I focus on characters as individuals with attitudes and write each scene from a particular character's point of view. That way, even narrative passages…

— Elmore Leonard

These days, people like me who are in the arts are perceived as celebrity writers. That really makes me angry because I expend a…

— Julie Andrews

Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the strut and…

— Julianna Baggott

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. Its always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

— Matthew Nable