Articles Quote by Amy Waldman

As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough…

— Amy Waldman

I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.

— Chris Cleave

I've got a particular way of writing novels, and that carries over into the way I write comics and games, too. I'm a news…

— Karen Traviss

I can't write a novel without first really doing reporting. I don't even call it research; it's reporting. That process is very important to…

— Lorraine Adams

I'm a professional. So before I published any novels, I'd always been writing stories.

— Jess Walter

Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them…

— Philipp Meyer

Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It's…

— Italo Calvino

The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and I think…

— Jess Walter

I worked very hard as a young journalist learning the trade and asking questions, understanding what a story is and being able to present…

— Jill Douglas

I've always been a writer. I started getting paid for writing in college. Where it transitioned from commentary to journalism was in that shift…

— Melissa Gira Grant

I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to…

— Amy Hempel

After starting as a journalist for newspapers and magazines, I began to write books and had success with a novel and four nonfiction books…

— Jane Goldman