I write the books that I'm compelled to and I definitely…

Whenever you do something that's original, not based on a comic book or a novel or an old movie or a franchise, you definitely…

— Alfred Gough

I like playing smart women very, very much because I definitely learn from them.

— Autumn Reeser

Screening is an invaluable part of the process, obviously, having test screening and you definitely learn something.

— Bryan Burk

Twenty years ago, when I started writing, I didn't define myself as an African-American writer. And then you write books and you're focused on…

— Colson Whitehead

I write books and either people read them or they don't read them. The rise of Facebook or e-books doesn't change the difficulty level…

— Colson Whitehead

Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know.' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going to enhance…

— Rose Tremain

I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms…

— Justin Cronin

I would want to travel the world and write about it. To be a famous writer.

— Shantel VanSanten

Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news.

— John Fletcher

Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You've got to catch it through details, like the early morning…

— Billy Wilder

“If the world could write itself, it would write like Tolstoy.”

— Isaac Babel

...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience. I hope…

— Orson Scott Card

If you're building a fantasy world that exists outside of the rules of our real world, why would you write it to conform to…

— Lachlan Watson

When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother was always…

— Nicolas Roeg

I have all the time and space in the world when I write a book.

— Diana Gabaldon