Attention Quote by Virginia Dwan

You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know…

— Anne Rice

it is not unusual to hate great writers before we learn to love them. Because they have created something that did not yet exist,…

— Erica Jong

I don't know anyone who is a writer who isn't influenced by the relationships in their life.

— Amos Lee

The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.

— Malcolm Gladwell

John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first started writing. Now, the writers I'm most interested…

— Jonathan Dee

I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become…

— Leslie Fiedler

I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.

— Penelope Wilton

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be…

— Jane Austen

I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.

— Lillian Hellman

I consider William Gay one of the great writers that no one has ever heard of.

— W. Earl Brown

The never-ending competition between writers hasn't changed between 1868 and 2000. I used to belong to writers' workshops with other professionals, but that becomes…

— Dan Simmons

Being known as a writer did change the relationships I had with directors. The rap on actors is that they always want to inflate…

— Matt Damon