I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more... →
Jim Jarmusch
I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper... →
Dan Jenkins
One doesn't choose to become a writer. One is just born that way.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint.
Ma Jian
I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
Iris Johansen
I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.
Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high... →
A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about... →
Diane Johnson