“I write because I am a writer, not because I want to get anything out of it.” — H Raven Rose Copy Share Image
As a writer, I have this compulsion to take characters who appear formidable and bombard them with adversity until they crumble. What's… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can… — Michael Patrick King Copy Share Image
“Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art." (Last words, according to Dickens's… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“I am a complicated person with a simple life and I am the reason for everything that ever happened to me.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“Every broken piece of me fell on every broken piece of you and when I took the missing parts, like the emptiness… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“My problem as a writer is that—whenever I meet someone for the first time—I immediately invent for them a personality and background… — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
“I don’t even pretend to believe I know everything; I just believe in arguments God told me I had a pretty good… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there… — E. L. James Copy Share Image
My only wish would be to have 10 more lives to live on this planet. If that were possible, I'd spend one… — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I'm a very methodical writer. Before computers, I used reams of paper and stacks of index cards. — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
“Poetry is jealous of you tonight, for as soon as I come to pen a few words, your perfume attacks me in… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young! — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
I never get writer's block, but I do have days where I crawl under the duvet. — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
“A good author is he who isn’t afraid to speak his mind; he who dictates the art of the verse. A scribbler… — Leila Samarrai Copy Share Image
I don't live my life as a writer. I'm a mother, an African-American woman, and I do everything that everybody else does… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
“I hate being a writer. i tend to stick my emotions in things that cannot reciprocate. I've become a whore for my… — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
As much as I'm enjoying stuff out here in Hollywood, I will always think of myself as a comic-book writer who does… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Those who are coming from the gutters know that from time to time a piece of us will break off and float… — Crystal Evans Copy Share Image
