Character Quote by Francesca Gregorini

When you're writing, your mind has a place where the stories happen. With one word, you can get the idea of where you are.

— Luis Negron

Increasingly, there are those of us who write from outside the center, and those are the writers that I'm most interested in because they…

— Aminatta Forna

“Place in writing often exists at that intersection between the reality of place and one's imagination about that place -- what one believes, hopes,…

— David St. John

I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart.

— Robert Crais

Writing itself is one of the great, free human activities. There is scope for individuality, and elation, and discovery. In writing, for the person…

— William Stafford

“Writing is drawing the essence of what we know out of the shadows. That is what writing is about. Not what happens there, not…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

While writing, writers are living inside a character or characters, and when the book ekes into the world, writers are living inside the reader.…

— Lauren Groff

“Writing a story about a place calls that world into existence. Sometimes, as the author, you accompany it for a while. But even as…

— Alan McCluskey

“Writing is about allowing yourself to become a vessel of creativity. Writers are avatars of creation. We have tender hearts, and strong emotions. It's…

— Sai Marie Johnson

When you're actually inside the experience of writing something, in some ways, you're just writing. Ultimately, you fall in love with the characters, and…

— Simon Kinberg

I think many people have wonderful stories inside them and the talent to tell those stories. But the writing life, with its isolation and…

— Ellen Ullman

I think that the way that I write stories is by instinct. You have some basic ideas - a character, or an image, or…

— Dan Chaon