Another Quote by Simon Callow

“He was always being told that writers never become famous or rich, but of course that was not why he wrote, he wrote simply…

— Andrew James Pritchard

Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but…

— Jack Vance

“He had started out the way nearly all writers do, and I'd seen it a hundred times--amateurs transformed into gibbering wrecks by actually being…

— Colin Bateman

He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“He admired writers whose own stories were as interesting as the ones they wrote.”

— Adam Langer

“He read with intensity and was passionately in love with every character, every turn of plot or twist of language. He made the characters…

— Sarah Ockler

Jack Kerouac did what he most wanted to do. He wrote great prose. He became the writer he wanted to be.

— Joyce Johnson

I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went…

— Tom Robbins

I'm always fascinated by why a person becomes a writer.

— Adriana Trigiani

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 love telling stories for a living. The process of writing has its frustrations, but also its joys (there’s no high like typing “The…

— Marcus Sakey

There has always been this narrator in me - I loved ideas, and part of the great love affair I would have with ideas…

— Jason Silva