Art Quote by Mario Vargas Llosa

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort…

— Eavan Boland

Performing arts was something I was always part of. That was may be the only common thread that ran throughout my education, throughout my…

— Nimrat Kaur

I had literary interests my whole life. I decided at the age of five I was going to be a writer. So I had…

— Tom Robbins

The big change that's happened for me in terms of my own life and how outsidership is reflected in my work is that I…

— Ira Sachs

I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And…

— Wallace Shawn

What took some time for me to figure out was how to have a life outside my career, to find a way to be…

— Mariette Hartley

I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate.

— Ashwin Sanghi

When I was growing up, my parents thought there could be nothing better than being a writer. And at that time, society afforded that…

— Alissa Quart

Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am going to…

— Sidney Lanier

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens…

— Russell Banks

Something in me was always watching life from the outside, permanently obsessed with the notion of belonging vs. not-belonging [to a group]. It did…

— Barbara Kingsolver