Assumption Quote by Ron Currie Jr

I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

I think maybe writers come from different planets. I mean, not in any sense as extravagant as Baryshnikov. But there are some writers who…

— Renata Adler

The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.

— Ann Beattie

The average person might articulate them differently, but we all think about interpersonal relationships in one way or another. Writers just express that in…

— Jennifer Egan

We always worry that we are copying someone else, that we don't have our own style. Don't worry. Writing is a communal act. Contrary…

— Natalie Goldberg

It seems natural to me that as a writer, you should have some kind of, you know, there should be some kind of projection…

— Amiri Baraka

That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.

— Don DeLillo

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

— Salman Rushdie

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the…

— J. M. Coetzee

Most writers do similar things in their minds. It's how the mind works, basically.

— Raymond Pettibon

It's very hard to turn writers against each other, believe it or not.

— Matthew Weiner

I know that the writers I read and admire all have an influence on my work, but trying to determine to what degree any…

— Kevin Powers