The things I discovered when writing 'Line of Duty' were…

My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.

— Harry Mathews

One would argue what they do to me on 'Jokers' is already horror. It's an easy transition to write a thriller.

— James Murray

What Stieg Larsson was up to - it was the Swedish guilt over World War II. All of our neighbors had the most terrible…

— Michael Nyqvist

The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.

— Lee Child

i still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line...

— Yukio Mishima

“The most difficult thing about writing; is writing the first line.”

— Amit Kalantri

It's really hard to talk about writing, and I'm usually conscious if I'm misleading people or misleading the questioner, because the problem with writing…

— Tom Stoppard

As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.

— Glenn Close

When I start writing, the first line might come from reality, but the second and the third one, I have to write it. So…

— Pedro Almodovar

As a youngster when I started writing and stuff, I did actually write more from other people's perspectives. When I hit 18 and something…

— Sam Smith

“I've discovered that sometimes writing badly can eventually lead to something better. Not writing at all leads to nothing.”

— Anna Quindlen

I discovered the writing of Kirsty Eagar and was blown away. Everyone needs to read her now.

— Justine Larbalestier

“Garp discovered that when you are writing something, everything seems related to everything else.”

— John Irving

When I gave up dope and alcohol, my immediate feeling was 'I've saved my life, but there'll be a price because I'll have nothing…

— Stephen King

Everyone who has ever written will have discovered that writing always awakens something which, though it lay within us, we failed clearly to recognize…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg