Appreciation Quote by Louis Auchincloss

I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write about them…

— Per Petterson

Class is something that I think seriously about and try to organise my politics around. I think there are lots of novels that don't…

— Sally Rooney

Several people, not just reviewers, took me to task for writing about what they called the working classes - something I've been doing for…

— Martin Amis

What is very troubling is that people who have tried to write literature, even, for example, proletarian writers, seem to write within the norms…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

— George W. Bush

I write a lot about disadvantaged people, particularly vulnerable children, because I feel that that's who I was. That is familiar terrain for me.…

— Charles M. Blow

I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them.

— Zadie Smith

I teach at Duke, and I have students who are all of twenty who want to write memoirs, and you know it's all pretty…

— Oscar Hijuelos

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world, and my…

— Jose Saramago

I could never write about the sort of people John Cheever or John Updike or even Margaret Atwood write about. I don't mean I…

— Jim Woodring

You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.

— Tracy Kidder

My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if…

— George Eliot