I'm not a writer who looks for the fantastic and the sensational. I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I... →
Graham Swift
I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
John Millington Synge
As a writer, I've always been interested in others.
Antonio Tabucchi
It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.
Amy Tan
I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
Quentin Tarantino
I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.
Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time... →
Donna Tartt
So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary... →