Happened Quote by Salman Rushdie

I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.

— Salman Rushdie

I have no problem with religion, and I grew up with a strong curiosity about spiritual matters, but my searching took me away from…

— Eric Clapton

It's my belief that I was a writer - a very hardworking writer - well before I was published. I did care what others…

— Min Jin Lee

As a writer, you need a strong sense of self-belief. And when it comes to writing, I've always had that.

— Ronald Frame

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

Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.

— D. H. Lawrence

A lot of things that I write about have happened to people around me, if not necessarily to me or in the organizations I've…

— Ravi Subramanian

I never considered myself a writer. I'm a teacher. In a way, I feel kind of... kind of guilty for all the people who…

— Allan Bloom

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that…

— Chaim Potok

I have people constantly come up to me telling me that I have written their life. When I wrote the story I thought it…

— Blackie

I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.

— Bob Schieffer

Everything that you know about yourself comes from thinking back, and I think I saw religion as the first big betrayal of me.

— George Carlin