Helping Quote by Neil Gaiman

Even though I was trained in play writing and screenwriting, when I sat down to write a comic book for the first time, Alan…

— Brian K. Vaughan

I was influenced by autobiographical writers like Henry Miller, and I had actually done some autobiographical prose. But I just thought that comics were…

— Harvey Pekar

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there…

— Kelley Armstrong

I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

— Patrick Modiano

I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal,…

— William Saroyan

I was always obsessed with being a writer of some sort.

— David Droga

All good writers inspire me as I have never thought I was any good. As far as a writer who made me think I…

— Henry Rollins

My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my…

— Shakira

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

— Kenneth Koch

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

— Kate Morton

Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like Ben Hecht…

— John Scalzi

I always wanted to be a writer.

— Jung Chang