Want Quote by Tony Earley

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

— Gloria Steinem

In every novel, I write about something - a place, an experience, an emotion - with which I'm intimately familiar, but it's also crucial…

— Julia Glass

You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I will write it myself.

— Joe Pasternak

There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.

— Richard Scarry

I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.

— Marianne Williamson

Writers write. Everyone else makes excuses.

— Jack Bickham

All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with…

— Dorothy Parker

There are two places that are hard to write about. A place like Britain, England in particular, which has been written about by everybody,…

— Paul Theroux

I don't care what 'Pitchfork' says. They write from a place that's a little too self-aware for me to really give a damn about…

— Jason Isbell

I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing the way…

— William Saroyan

Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a…

— Ernest Hemingway

Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place.

— Ron Rash