Character Quote by Jodi Picoult

I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.

— Patricia Clarkson

Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.

— Robert Rodriguez

I feel like one can have all of that as a writer; you're writing, you're reading, you're talking to interesting and intelligent people. Your…

— Sheila Heti

I think many people have wonderful stories inside them and the talent to tell those stories. But the writing life, with its isolation and…

— Ellen Ullman

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 don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.

— Vikas Swarup

You can't be a writer and have nothing to write about. You have to have life experiences.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I believe writers should be able to write about anything - anything - but there is also a sense in which your lived experience…

— Katie Kitamura

I've been a writer my whole life.

— Scheana Shay

You have to live in order to have something to write about - you get caught up in moviemaking and celebrities and money, and…

— John Patrick Shanley

You were born with the seeds of your talent, the ability to observe the world around you and weave piece of it into a…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I…

— David Crosby