I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're... →
E. L. Doctorow
Travel definitely affects me as a writer.
Anthony Doerr
You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.
The portal structure is simply a technique: it is neither necessary nor unnecessary, except as the writer and the story make it so. In the case of... →
Stephen R. Donaldson
You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just lets you get on with it.
Emma Donoghue
I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.
Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.
If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is... →
Roddy Doyle
Perhaps it is because I'm a writer trained in history that I've always assumed I would make mistakes in my drafts. Historians know how faulty... →
Alice Dreger
Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
Fran Drescher