Clear Quote by Italo Calvino

My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and…

— Richard Powers

The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, 'I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.'

— Mark Haddon

Everyone has an idea, but it's really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you with the idea.

— Jack Dorsey

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will…

— Robert B. Parker

I'd like to write fiction. Perhaps at some stage.

— John Gimlette

Some writers pick a topic and write around that, but I like to include it all.

— Sarah Dessen

One of the things that I've noticed over the years is that I seem to be fascinated as a writer with the notion that…

— Vera Nazarian

I write to reach people's common sense and intelligence, to show them that if they unite they can make a different world possible.

— Katharine Susannah Prichard

You must find a way to express your ideas and compel your audience to react through the idea itself, and then figuring out what…

— Kevin Spacey

The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and…

— Irvine Welsh

But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with…

— A. E. van Vogt