Doing the right thing Quote by Marti Noxon

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

— Kenneth Koch

You want to say the thing that will drive everybody in the direction you want to go. But as a writer you have a…

— Michael Pollan

I'm a storyteller, I'm not a literary writer, and I don't want to be a literary writer. People say to me, "Oh, when are…

— Jackie Collins

The desire to be liked is acceptable in real life but very problematic in fiction. Pleasantness is the enemy of good fiction. I try…

— Katie Kitamura

I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I don't like to hurt people's feelings, and I don't like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.

— Lydia Davis

What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike…

— Haruki Murakami

I think that I have every right to write a book. I think I'm interesting. I have perspective about me.

— Judy Garland

I can sit in the room with the other writers and just keep saying no until there's something I really like or until I…

— Paul Reubens

“I don't think most people would like my personality. There might be a few--very few, I would imagine--who are impressed by it, but only…

— Haruki Murakami

People say I'm controversial. But I think I lead a very balanced and normal life.

— Ricardo Salinas Pliego

For writers: don't hold back. Be weird. Be sentimental. Be melodramatic. Take the risk of being not-cool, not-hip.

— Andrew Sean Greer