Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.
Richard Powers
I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.
Terry Pratchett
Siren voices tell me, 'You don't have to keep going on.' And then you think, 'I'm a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my... →
I like being a writer.
I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer... →
Richard Price
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
J. B. Priestley
For any writer, the ability to look at a sentence and see what's superfluous, what can be altered, revised, expanded, and, especially, cut, is... →
Francine Prose
It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be... →
Manuel Puig
I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
When you go into projects, you can't look at it as limited; you have to dive into it wholeheartedly to be true to the writer's vision.
Jolene Purdy