I think you want to be writing about the world that we…

In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can't take positions that are closed. Everything I've ever…

— Toni Morrison

I feel like I'll be writing World War 2 music the rest of my life.

— Michael Giacchino

When it is going well, it is the best job [writing] in the world. For those few hours, you are god, in control of…

— Michael Scott

The danger in writing about a world you don't know very well is that you can get lost in it, and sometimes I'll end…

— Dan Chaon

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

— V. S. Naipaul

People who write books - they live in their own world as they're writing. But people who are doing shows or big movies -…

— Mike White

Not writing is as important as writing - go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.

— Veronica Roth

All the time she writing the world had continued.

— Virginia Woolf

When I'm stuck in my writing, the world is amiss. If I'm eating a sandwich, it's an unsettled sandwich. If I'm in the shower,…

— Melissa Rosenberg

A lot of people work really diligently to maintain a "profile" in the writing world, but that's so hard, and so boring most of…

— Dan Chaon

Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building.

— M. John Harrison

I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.

— Rupert Holmes

I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.

— Daphne Gottlieb

When you get immersed in whatever you're writing, the world does suddenly get so filtered through what you're writing. And then of course what…

— Jane Alison

“[Writing is] world making and the peopling of those worlds, complete with time lines and heartache.”

— David Mitchell