Accordingly Quote by Amy Bloom

My only job is to write in such a way that the reader gets a new handle on humanity.

— Thomas Steinbeck

My job is to bring to life the character, not to put the words on the paper.

— Michael K. Williams

Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

— Barbara Mertz

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.

— Theodore Sturgeon

Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write.

— Per Petterson

I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then it is…

— Etgar Keret

I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing. That's the…

— Isabel Allende

My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.

— Randy Alcorn

My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.

— Sara Zarr

“writing can be used as a vehicle to express ourselves as we negotiate the journey through our lives.”

— Kelly Gallagher

I don't really decide what the core of the story is before I write. I write to figure out what the story is. And…

— Greta Gerwig

My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.

— Julianna Baggott