Bones Quote by Maureen Howard

I had - there were three strokes, and I lost my ability to read and write and speak, and it really put me by…

— Ntozake Shange

The truth is, I hadn't grown up really wanting to be a writer. The whole thing was a weird aberration in some ways, and…

— Alex Garland

What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write... Maybe the…

— Paul Di Filippo

Enough time had passed that I was ready to write the book Hungry. Was it absolutely difficult? Completely. I had to go back and…

— Crystal Renn

I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own…

— Koren Zailckas

I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited…

— Mavis Gallant

I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way…

— Alan Bennett

It was not a choice of writing or not writing. It was a choice of loving my life or not loving my life. To…

— Mary Oliver

I was left with myself and had to do the one thing I could to survive. I knew it would be difficult to write,…

— Frederick Seidel

I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way…

— Alan Bennett

As a writer you can and should expect to hear conflicting responses to your story.

— John Dufresne

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my…

— Diane Setterfield