Break Quote by Karl Iagnemma

I didn't study writing. I didn't write anything substantial until I got to California.

— Joss Whedon

I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There were two reasons. I had almost no time to do my…

— Lydia Davis

Twenty years ago, when I started writing, I didn't define myself as an African-American writer. And then you write books and you're focused on…

— Colson Whitehead

By junior high, I was a horrible student. But during my sophomore year of high school, I did have a fabulous English teacher, and…

— Andrea Barrett

The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't have a…

— Washed Out

I guess it's inevitable that I would become somebody who would write about scientists.

— Margot Lee Shetterly

I've always written about people who have very abstracted in a certain way. I write about scientists and artists and musicians. I write about…

— Andrea Barrett

“The distinction that only sciences are useful and only arts are spirit-enhancing is a nonsensical one. I couldn't write much without scientists designing my…

— Natalie Haynes

“If he didn't like the writing, then he didn't like her, and everything she had done in her whole life would be for nothing.”

— Alethea Kontis

I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.

— Joan Didion

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I…

— Gaby Hoffmann

I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better mother, lover…

— Helen Slater