Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.
Ken Follett
A writer has an inescapable voice. I think it's inherent in the nature, and I think that we don't control it anymore than we control what we... →
Horton Foote
Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
Richard Ford
I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have an urge... →
What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.
Aminatta Forna
Increasingly, there are those of us who write from outside the center, and those are the writers that I'm most interested in because they bring... →
Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
E. M. Forster
Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.
Karin Fossum
I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five.... →
Michael J. Fox