Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe.... →
Walter Kirn
At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound similar. They... →
When we have a favorite writer, it's always the places where they grew up, lived, worked, and that they recreated on the page that we most want... →
A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.
My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.
When you decide you want to become a television writer, you naively assume it's going to be like the writers on the old 'Dick Van Dyke... →
Jeffrey Klarik
We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad... →
Vaclav Klaus
I wish podcasting was my only job - I have more fun doing that than I have doing absolutely anything else. But my job is that I'm a writer.
Julie Klausner
I wrote my book 'The Amorous Busboy Of Decatur Avenue' completely like a writer does, writing it down, re-writing everything. But in my... →
Robert Klein
The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor.
Alfred A. Knopf