Information Quote by Suleika Jaouad

My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the…

— John Hodgman

Once I discovered the endless fascination of doing the research and of doing the writing, I knew I had found what I wanted to…

— David McCullough

I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.

— A. S. Byatt

I've published many biographies over the years and enjoyed working with writers on their research, discussing it, thinking about it and how it revealed…

— Victoria Wilson

I had to learn a lot about myself during the situation with my brain tumor.

— Tionne Watkins

Isolated in the oncology ward, I began to think about my dream to become a writer.

— Suleika Jaouad

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

— Robert Harris

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 instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

— Peter Straub

I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.

— Natalie Goldberg

I really am a very research-oriented writer.

— Eric Kripke

I had liver disease. I'm completely cured now, but I thought about if I died from liver cancer, what my life would look like.…

— Min Jin Lee