I never wanted to write for writing alone, but for the…

“I intend all my characters must escape from impossible situations; if they are not in trouble, then as a writer, I am.”

— Cleveland W. Gibson

Unfortunately, neither of my grandfathers were alive by the time I decided I wanted to write a book. I wish I had asked them…

— Shweta Bachchan Nanda

I think that if you look at all of the books that have ever been written about people working in the White House, they're…

— Alyssa Mastromonaco

I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.

— Imre Kertész

When you are writing the story of of your life never lend out your pen

— Anonymous

I made the rules I figured I could be the one to break them. I thought I would write about xenophobia, a hatred of…

— Sue Grafton

“When I began writing this story, I thought I had some idea of what it was about. I was wrong. In my life writing…

— Richard Paul Evans

You learn to do your best writing on story rather than off story. Very often at the beginning of their careers, writers including me…

— Victor Levin

So here I am, sending a two-ounce mouse down into a dungeon with a sewing needle to save a human princess, and I don't…

— Kate DiCamillo

“After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this…

— Ernest Hemingway

When you're writing a story, you're creating something of an artificial ending.

— Mary Gaitskill

The human race may be compared to a writer. At the outset a writer has often only a vague general notion of the plan…

— Felix Adler

I'm always writing. There is always a story brewing in my head.

— Mel Gibson

“writing a story is dangerous more dangerous then anyone can know. Its planting small seeds of ideas into peoples minds. Some can grow and…

— Natalie Stein

What I often do when I'm writing, if I can't find that story, I go out and I hunt for it.

— Lynn Nottage