Argument Quote by Adam Gopnik

Writing dialogue is like writing a song, which I've done.

— Brian Azzarello

Most of the time, when I'm writing, I'm writing for myself. I'm thinking, 'What will my character say at this time? What will come…

— Katori Hall

I try to make the voice in my head come out onto the page. I try to make it much more conversational than other…

— James Frey

When I give a speech, I tell it like a story.

— Brad Parscale

If you have a single narrator, a person like an "I" - "'I' did this" and "'I' did that" - it automatically solves the…

— Truman Capote

Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.

— Christopher McQuarrie

When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.

— Alistair MacLeod

Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so…

— Terry Eagleton

What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, but to actually…

— Luanne Rice

When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write…

— Lauren DeStefano