Find the story you want to tell. If you don't want to…

When you cast somebody, you write to their strengths.

— Geoff Stults

First and foremost, I want people to have a good read, because I want everything I write to entertain people. There are always different…

— Karin Slaughter

I'm really not opposed to playing anything as long as it's a story that I want to tell.

— Italia Ricci

You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'

— Aaron Sorkin

“I write because I have to write; but I also write because there’s somebody out there, hopefully, who will read it.”

— Harley King

It's interesting when you write something for somebody else, and then you're like, 'Oh man, I just laid my whole trip on them, and…

— LP

Write because you love it and not because it is something that you think you should do. Always write about something or somebody you…

— Michael Morpurgo

And it's one more shitty thing to write about somebody, in between getting really, really, really upset at female Ghostbusters and Gamergate, and the…

— David Cross

Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I'm very selective about what I write about, and whom I write about, and how much I write about somebody.

— Cathy Horyn

When you write for somebody else, you've got to write from their standpoint. You can't really write from your own point of view.

— The D.O.C

I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'

— Maurice Sendak

If you write for somebody that you know, then your job is so much easier.

— Jessica St. Clair

There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.

— Dean Koontz

It's very hard to tell somebody how to write when they're so good, and they're a brilliant writer and a really good guy.

— Bonnie Hammer