Come Quote by Michael Beschloss

I do have people in mind when I write. I don't know precisely who they are, however, or how many of them there are.

— Lorrie Moore

Most people, or at least most of the people that I've come into contact with, would like to be written about.

— David Sedaris

You are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Not that many people, even contemporary writers, write about right now.

— Anna Deavere Smith

People who think well, write well

— David Ogilvy

One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position.…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

— Wole Soyinka

I've never paid much attention to those who have written me off.

— Humza Yousaf

There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

— Wilfrid Sheed

I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.

— Mario Benedetti

“Those of you who are ignoring my writing are doing it at your own risk. I am writing passionately for the last ten years…

— Avijeet Das