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I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.

Stevie Nicks

Decision

Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful.

I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Vladimir Nabokov

Imagination

Writer

I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning.

At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.

John Mortimer

Life

Writer

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.

What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.

Alanis Morissette

Mind

Writer

If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.

I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood.

Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.