Books Quote by George Saunders

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

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

I think a writer's first job is to entertain, even in novels: to tell a compelling story that pulls the reader along toward an…

— Noah Hawley

I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the world they…

— Salman Rushdie

I think that, as a writer, while it's your job to construct stories, you have to navigate your way through them with your heart.

— Abi Morgan

The kind of roles one wants to do arent being written; the stories one wants to tell are few and far between; and the…

— Tisca Chopra

It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.

— Michael Ondaatje

When you're a writer, there is a selflessness that has to happen; you have to have equity with how you treat each of the…

— Natasha Rothwell

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.

— Eric Brown

Some stories doesn't need to be written, circumstances automatically narrates the scenes behind it.

— Sushan

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.

— Sara Sheridan

I think writer is a word without gender, and a good writer observes, absorbs, hopefully empathizes then translates that into character and story. You…

— Nora Roberts