Book Quote by John Irving

“My problem as a writer is that—whenever I meet someone for the first time—I immediately invent for them a personality and background that are…

— James Rozoff

But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing.

— J. G. Ballard

Every writer you meet, at least in Hollywood, is miserable.

— Matt Duffer

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

— Orson Scott Card

I know some writers are meticulous planners, but I'm not one of them.

— Gail Honeyman

I actually don't read the press. All the writers I admire were significantly reclusive, and I'm still trying to figure out how they got…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

From an artist's point of view, I always want to work with the writers I admire.

— Jim Lee

But I don't really write to honor the past. I write to investigate, to try to figure out what happened and why it happened,…

— Horton Foote

All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez.

— Sam Shepard

In all the writers I admire, the common detonator is their courage to walk naked.

— Richard Flanagan

To observe the world carefully, to write a lot and often, on a schedule if necessary, to use the dictionary a lot, to look…

— Lydia Davis

There are writers you admire, for the skill or the art, for the inventiveness or for the professionalism of a career well spent. And…

— James D. Houston