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My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years.

There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters.

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.

It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.

The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

You know, Mamet is not a huge writer of female parts. Most of his movies don't even have women in them, so I'm lucky I'm in it at all.

Elle Macpherson

I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.

Alistair Maclean

When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.

Today it's almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer with power... I wouldn't hesitate right this minute to hire a talented woman if the subject matter were right.

I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class.

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

It used to bother me being portrayed as this bitchy person, but now I feel that the public understands me better than some writer. There are people who know who I really am, and that's good enough for me.

And I think a good writer's gonna make it interesting. From the first paragraph it will all be interesting. Just work at it and work at it and work at it.