The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
Flannery O'Connor
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they... →
I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt about an influential book by Harold Bloom. 'The... →
Andrew O'Hagan
As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.
As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.
Stewart O'Nan
I like the idea of being a working writer, not of saying that it's going to take me 30 years to write my magnum opus.
I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.
Joseph O'Neill
I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.