Alive Quote by J.A. Konrath

All of us, writers and non-writers alike, have incredible well-springs of personal experience and history. And we also have imagination - which I think…

— Ayana Mathis

It's very difficult, I think for most writers, to carve out the time and the kind of imaginative space to do the writing that…

— Emily Barton

to live life as a writer is a very lucky thing.

— Wendy Wasserstein

In 21st-century storytelling all bets are off: anybody can do anything. We're all storytellers.

— Lenny Henry

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

— Zadie Smith

And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop…

— Neil Gaiman

People don't become writers because they love having spontaneous, real-world interactions with living people as bodies with clothes in time.

— Elif Batuman

We have to be able to use our imaginations to make the character's experiences real to us.

— Elizabeth Marvel

writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I think that's what a lot of writers do, create a totally fantastical scenario that is a reflection of something else going on in…

— Matt Bellamy

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

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers…

— Zadie Smith