About Quote by Tim Blake Nelson

I had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel that later…

— Neel Mukherjee

Raymond Carver had the quote that I loved about how he felt that a short story was the moment right before someone's life was…

— Molly Antopol

What I described in 'Another Life' - about being on the hill and feeling the sort of dissolution that happened - is a frequent…

— Derek Walcott

I became a writer in spite of my environments.

— Robert E. Howard

I was writing fiction in my 20s but in a pretty undisciplined way - late at night, maybe, after I'd peeled myself from the…

— Kevin Barry

The trajectory of my writing has moved further and further away from autobiography. My first stories in Confessions of a Falling Woman worked familiar…

— Debra Dean

After college, I was living in New York and wrote furiously, a huge novel that I knew was a failure. I hoped that the…

— Chang-Rae Lee

When I was a journalist... toward the end of my career, it had started to feel like there was this revolving door of misery…

— Cord Jefferson

Eventually, I started writing down a bunch of titles that related to childhood themes and would pair it with an adult situation that either…

— Melanie Martinez

'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.

— Junot Diaz

Life throws surprises, sorrows, sadness, and hardship, and I think that writing has actually grounded me. It kept me grounded when everything else was…

— Sandra Brown

I lived in Boston for three years, and during that time, I wrote my first collection of stories, 'What the World Will Look Like…

— Laura van den Berg