Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
W. H. Auden
I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.
Jean M. Auel
After I did 'Mr. Show,' I was basically just a writer for a while. I was really young, and I kinda was like, ,wow, I'm 27 and I was... →
Scott Aukerman
I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer, who tends to have flights of... →
Paul Auster
I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.
Natalie Babbitt
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
Richard Bach
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Gaston Bachelard
It's not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the way I see the world. They... →
Julianna Baggott
If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.
As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.