About Quote by Vetrimaaran

To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.

— Michael Ondaatje

If you can't empathize with other people, then you will never really be able to write well about them.

— Rumaan Alam

It's an odd situation: I could not write about someone for whom I felt no affection or admiration.

— Claire Tomalin

Part of what I love so much about writing is learning about people who are unlike myself and going to places in my writing…

— Nia DaCosta

It's hard to say how we compare to other people. We each inhabit our own personalities. I have often felt that I'm a very…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I think one's person's unlikeable is another's lovable.

— Tom Barbash

When I write I inhabit a personality that is and is not me.

— Giles Coren

I don't like to write about myself. I like listening to people.

— Jorja Smith

“I don't think most people would like my personality. There might be a few--very few, I would imagine--who are impressed by it, but only…

— Haruki Murakami

I don't write for any particular kind of person.

— Mary Wesley

I don't think I could write about someone I didn't feel some sympathy for.

— Stef Penney

I'm just really not good at being like anybody else or writing like anybody else.

— Alison Sudol