Quotes About Author

I am a writer and not a judge.

I majored in Southern history in college, and much of my early work at my first job - as a staff writer at 'Memphis' magazine - focused on race relations.

George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing.

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

I went through a phase where I wanted to be a writer... but it's not social enough.

I sometimes wonder if I would have become a writer if what happened to my father hadn't happened.

It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer.

When people used to call me a political writer, it was kind of confusing because I was always much more interested in the social end of things which hinges on the political, but it isn't really part of it.

Writing is very much an emotional process; it requires you to be very in touch with your feelings. That is the opposite of what you're taught as a medical doctor. We're supposed to be detached and logical. Maybe because I started off as a writer and then became a doctor, I'm able to integrate those two.

I'm not the slowest writer that you know.

A postcolonial writer who has often been credited with mixing the mundane with the magical, and history with fiction, is Salman Rushdie.

Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read.

I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.

A great writer requires a great biography, and a great biography must tell the truth.

I firmly believe that there is no better thriller writer than Harlan Coben.

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.

I like Rebecca Miller and her writing. She's a tremendous writer and director.

There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.

The first time I went to Helene Hanff's apartment at 305 East 72nd Street, it was 1977, and I was a 16-year-old girl who wanted to be a writer.

Though a fine writer, Scott Spencer will forever be associated with a cheesy, sentimental film starring the vapid box-office draw Brooke Shields.

Now I would say I'm absolutely a feminist writer.

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty.

I'm a schizophrenic writer.