I'm not the type of woman who shows off my body; I'm a vocalist and I'm a writer and I think people see that more so than they see... →
Jazmine Sullivan
There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact... →
John Jeremiah Sullivan
I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars'... →
William Graham Sumner
As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write, I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!
Jacqueline Susann
The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.
Vikas Swarup
For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job... →
I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.
The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was in any way artistic or a... →
Graham Swift
My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.