#writer

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#actually #autobiographical #confused #get #i

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#had #i #like #literary #more

Basically I started to jot notes, lots of faxes back and forth to my writer, we faxed ideas throughout the whole first draft, and started all over again. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

#back #basically #draft #faxes #first

The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#alone #before #best #daily #days

So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

#experienced #getting #got #had #head

I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#arts #college #fine #fine arts #home mom

New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God. ↗

— Tim LaHaye

#breed #dreamed #estimation #fiction #fiction writers

I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's got to be something - it's a very special kind of talent. ↗

— Edie Falco

#general #got #i #kind #know

I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#attention #audience #because #book #capture

When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#being #certain #colleagues #community #did