American Quote by Walter Kirn

I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be.

— Brian D. McLaren

Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.

— Andrew Sean Greer

It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.

— Ann Beattie

I like to think of myself as an unmediated novelist - or perhaps a national novelist.

— E. L. Doctorow

I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.

— Michael Palin

In a democracy in the 20th and 21st century, if you can't base your fiction upon ordinary people and the issues that engage them,…

— John Updike

I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

— Danielle Trussoni

I couldn't be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I'm pretty optimistic.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have…

— Jennifer Weiner

I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.

— Bob Schieffer

I think there's nothing more wonderful than using fiction to reflect real-world cultural ideas.

— Jesse Eisenberg

I couldnt be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because Im pretty optimistic.

— Jacqueline Woodson