There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the... →
Quentin Crisp
I have any number of completely dark obsessions and fascinations, and none of this was present in my profile or my growing profile as a writer.
Justin Cronin
One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions - there's all this contradictory... →
Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.
I'm a workmanlike writer. I show up every day and treat it like a job. The old rule that writing is like any other job, the first rule is that... →
Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.
Sloane Crosley
I don't understand how you can be a decent writer and not know people.
It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction... →
Neil Cross
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
Samuel McChord Crothers
Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened... →
Cameron Crowe