Audience Quote by Colm Meaney

The great thing about writing is that you always put yourself in the shoes of the character. If you're doing it right, you can…

— Peter Gould

You have to fire yourself as the writer when you direct something you've written. You have to fire yourself, or else you get precious…

— Joel Schumacher

Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash and burn. They also have to learn when to let go…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“A good fiction writer can write any character or any story that she wants to write. The importance, IMO, is a burning desire to…

— Suzanne Brockmann

Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.

— Nuruddin Farah

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

But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it’s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel…

— Dean Koontz

“Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.”

— Chuck Wendig

Talk about burning books and burning bushes, I think that reading an effective novel can be like being immersed in fire and emerging as…

— Suhayl Saadi

I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?'…

— Irvine Welsh

A lot of writers write for an audience that's going to understand them.

— Torrey Peters

“Writing should be a little bit grainy, it should be a little bit raw. It should be every single thing flowing inside of us,…

— Gregory Sherl