I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But... →
Philip Roth
Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican... →
Karl Rove
My dad was an actor and a writer; my mum was a drama teacher. My grandma was an actress. My aunt is an actress. My granddad was a cameraman. They... →
Charlie Rowe
I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.
J. K. Rowling
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning... →
Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.
I have truly known what it means for a writer to feel loved.
Arundhati Roy
There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already been made.
As a writer, I have to go to a different place now. As a person... I want to step off whatever this stage is that I have been given. The argument has... →