Area Quote by Jim Rash

I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.

— Jean M. Auel

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.

— Monica Johnson

All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience.

— Robert Holdstock

I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.

— Tea Obreht

For me, influences really come from everywhere: literature, comics, movies, anime, Internet, science, real-life situations. In fact, I think that writing is just about…

— David Cage

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

— Robert E. Howard

The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and…

— Whitley Strieber

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

— John Irving

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one,…

— Judy Blume

I look back at my career when I was younger and can connect what I was going through at the time with the characters…

— Jodie Foster

Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.

— John Banville