Books Quote by Alan Moore

I want to do something that can make people feel something and make them care about the characters.

— David Nutter

If you're going to write something, that's going to be read by people, a lot of people, you hope it will not only entertain…

— Stan Lee

If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry.

— James J. Kilpatrick

I'm not so sure that I can teach people how to, you know, write dialogue or create plot or anything like that. But if…

— Colum McCann

I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write…

— Robert Morgan

There is an aesthetic crisis in writing, which is this: how do we write emotionally of scenes involving computers? How do we make concrete,…

— Quinn Norton

One of the nice things about writing is you can take essentially painful things in your life and turn them into something that might…

— Patrick deWitt

The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word…

— Dick Cavett

I think if I was ever really going to be more serious about writing I'd have to try and find some way to do…

— Romola Garai

I think most people that do comedy write for themselves. I don't think there is any other way you can do it, really. Otherwise…

— David Walliams

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the reader may…

— Kurt Vonnegut