Anomalies Quote by Junot Diaz

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

— J. K. Rowling

I am what I am as a writer because of Norman Lear and Spike Lee. Norman Lear in particular.

— Kenya Barris

Maybe someone's who's a different kind of writer [would think otherwise] - someone who'd be just as comfortable writing essays on what their novels…

— Chang-Rae Lee

Like, your body has to get used to being in front of people. Like - and you have to be like - you have…

— Neal Brennan

Writers - human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

— Wole Soyinka

There is Harlan Ellison the human being, who takes a crap a couple of times a day, and who farts, and who eats chicken…

— Harlan Ellison

I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other…

— Paul Kane

I hope I'm not just looked as a writer that is popular but as a writer of literary value.

— Sandra Cisneros

For everyone I know who is a writer, there was some awkward time in their lives when they had to learn to call themselves…

— James Bernard Frost

I very much like people. I don't much like writers who don't.

— Jim Shepard

“Why shouldn’t I? I demand silently. Why shouldn’t I become a famous writer? Like Norman Mailer. Or Philip Roth. And F. Scott Fitzgerald and…

— Candace Bushnell

If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.

— Mickey Spillane