I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.
Al Alvarez
The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.
Stephen Ambrose
I wish I was the kind of writer who would go to a war zone and write about something that's meaningful and important to people, but that's... →
Jonathan Ames
Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.
Martin Amis
The literary interview won't tell you what a writer is like. Far more compellingly to some, it will tell you what a writer is like to interview.
I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time for my... →
Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a good evocation of... →
I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
Tori Amos
Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.
Steven Amsterdam
I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting... →
Ian Anderson