Afterwards Quote by John Updike

Most writers write from their own experiences. That is where the honesty and intensity of emotions come from.

— Ravi Subramanian

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the…

— J. M. Coetzee

There's no better feeling as a writer than to see your piece going beyond what you can have ever imagined. And a wonderful way…

— Tom Kitt

All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood of the…

— Virginia Woolf

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on,…

— Paul Auster

Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their creative life.

— Flannery O'Connor

“Each literature bears its freight of the eclipsed; each generation shows us writers in the process of disappearing.”

— Keith Botsford

“Writing is about allowing yourself to become a vessel of creativity. Writers are avatars of creation. We have tender hearts, and strong emotions. It's…

— Sai Marie Johnson

I could say that all my books were conceived by the time I was twenty, although they were not to be written for another…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about…

— Gunter Grass

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 think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.

— Paul Auster