You have to be a really talented writer if you're trying…

Young adult fiction is getting more popular among adults because the writer is trying hard all the time to maintain the reader's interest.

— Jesse Andrews

A writer is trying to create believable people in credible moving situations in the most moving way he can.

— William Faulkner

What you're normally doing as a writer is trying to find the narrative.

— Joan Didion

Before I published my first book, I worked for a while as a documentary and wedding/bar mitzvah videographer, and a part of me still…

— Stefan Merrill Block

Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.

— William Landay

I think I'm always changing as a writer and trying new things.

— Frankie Cosmos

I do increasingly feel like becoming a better writer is about trying to find new ways to solve the same problems over and over…

— Mike Young

... I used words without precautions. I wanted to disappear into them, I fled into the bovaryism of the writer trying to create an effect.

— Storm Jameson

I know that as a writer I'm trying to, in some small way, return the gift that I got, and maybe provide a reader…

— Gregory Allen Howard

You have to force yourself to give up and to move onto something else. That's the way you grow as a writer, by trying…

— Karl Iagnemma

In a sense my whole life as a writer is trying to find structural ways, or formal ways, to permit that outflowing so it…

— George Saunders

I try to tell the story about the song with the believability that I've lived it myself and I understand what it's all about.

— Tony Bennett

The music takes on all different jobs and hopefully is part of telling the story. Each song has to be a story unto itself.…

— Frank Wildhorn

The story behind every song is individual to itself.

— Kelly Jones

The hardest part is writing a song as a story. A song is so short and there are only so many words that every…

— Giveon