Book Quote by Sarah Vowell

Another sex worker and writer I respect put it this way: she said that as a writer, you're not about pleasing people, and as…

— Melissa Gira Grant

I've always been a writer, actually. Not many people assume that, but I kinda keep quiet about anything that I do until I'm ready…

— Ryan Guzman

I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to me as…

— Salman Rushdie

“Think of it: a writer actually possesses the power to alter his past, to change what was once experienced as defeat into victory and…

— Franz Wright

I think challenges are what any decent writer would be all about. If you actually do find your slide and grease it, shame on…

— Dan Simmons

You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.

— Doris Lessing

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.

— Anne M. Mulcahy

I remember selling my first short story and thinking, Oh my god, I sold something for fifty dollars! That gives me the authority to…

— Chuck Palahniuk

A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals:…

— Hans Magnus Enzensberger

“Well, it would appear it wasn’t a lack of sex that made you so grouchy before.”

— Sibylla Matilde

Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

“Because I know there is still a wonderful person inside this big grouch standing in front of me.” Jake sighed. “I’m not a grouch.”…

— Jessie Evans