Of course, I write. I have stories to tell. But I don't…

I don't like a whole lot of flash and superficial stuff; I want a woman that's all-natural, in her purest form.

— Lamman Rucker

“A character’s want is a superficial conscious desire for the thing they think they need in order to present themselves to the world, a”

— John Yorke

Women on the whole are often not as shallow as men are. They can be, but they cut through things a little more easily…

— Peter Dinklage

One thing about being a performer is you're not just doing an intellectual job behind a desk; you're out there performing and being looked…

— Amanda Palmer

I don't say I create. I copy, of course. I've never been interested in the point of view of the tailor or creator. Fashion…

— Franco Moschino

You can't write something actively trying to please everyone - you're going to end up with watery soup that way. You just have to…

— Kelly Sue DeConnick

I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise moral questions…

— William Lashner

I'm pretty hardcore. I stick exactly to what I'm doing. So I write a novel in one period, and then I'll write stories in…

— T.C. Boyle

“My goal is not to have everlasting fame, it is simply to write the stories that are asking me to write them and to…

— Elizabeth Hernandez

There was Uncle Ken of mine about whom I wrote a lot of stories. I can always write stories about uncles and aunts and…

— Ruskin Bond

Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere, living at…

— Michael Chabon

When you write stories linking reality to a big storyline, people relate to it better.

— Ravi Subramanian

I think a lot of the way that I try to write my stories come from watching my mom write plays and trying to…

— Jazmine Sullivan

My goal is to write stories that are connected, but not sequels in any meaningful sense. Like Howard's Conan tales or Leiber's Fahrrd &…

— Paul S. Kemp

I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.

— Salman Rushdie