The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.
Who'd want to be a modernist writer in the English-speaking world?
The epiphany for me was that I wasn't a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters.
Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.
I'm an escapist kind of writer.
My sweet spot as a writer and, especially, as an essayist is sub-1500 words.
I met Eva Ibbotson before I became a writer myself, and was in awe of her then.
I've been accused of being unambitious, but what I do takes up every minute. I'm executive producer, I'm a writer and the host.
I'm just a slow writer. I'm picky and careful and fastidious.
Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and use them as required.
I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
I'm a neurotic fiction writer who'd like to be a cowboy.
My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.
I wanted to be a film and television writer and producer.
I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.
I'm a writer obsessed with remembering: with remembering the past of America above all - and above all, that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to forgetfulness.
