Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.
Alan Moore is a prophetic writer.
I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have an urge as a writer to meld the Southern experience into the larger American one.
Mostly I wanted to be a writer, though for a couple of years there I wanted to be an animator, because I loved drawing and capturing beautiful movements.
A writer is supposed to have anonymity.
I began as a writer and started blogging in 2001, first on politics, anonymously.
In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.
As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.
My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.
I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.
With the first novel, I was concerned I would be pigeon-holed as an Asian-American writer, and the book would be labeled for Asian-Americans only.
My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.
Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
Being lonely is not a bad thing for a writer.
When I'm not singing, I'm a lot of persons: I'm a producer. I'm a badminton player. I'm a writer. I'm a movie freak. I'm a documentary maker.
Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.
