There’s a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion. – Norma McCorvey
As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer. – David Frum
Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on ‘The Writer’s Almanac’ and I’ve heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That’s one of the great gifts of email. – Ellen Bass
The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel. – Norman Spinrad
The writer isn’t made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century. – E. L. Doctorow
I have an editor in my head, that’s why I can’t read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer. – Colleen McCullough
A volume of stories, bereft of continuity in plot and character, is often unified only by the writer’s obsessiveness. – Max Apple
Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one’s range as a writer, one’s technical command, so I consider the time well-spent. – Donna Tartt
No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published. – Dan Simmons
As far as I’m concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning. – Neil Gaiman
I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed. – Dan Simmons
When I started out as a novelist, I thought I was going to be a private-eye writer. That was my intent, and that’s what I studied, I mean, scholarly. – Greg Rucka
The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live. – Flannery O’Connor