Ability Quote by John Dufresne

If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer, you will not know…

— Mem Fox

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

Writing a novel is a very hard thing to do because it covers so long a space of time, and if you get discouraged…

— Maxwell Perkins

When you're writing, I think a big part of writing comes out of an attempt to understand yourself. You're dealing with emotions and thoughts…

— Sheila Heti

Often what happens with the writing is that you know where you want to start and you know where you want to end, but…

— Chris Chibnall

Writing can be a lonely business. But gradually your characters, or the scenes and peopl from your past, begin to rise up around you,…

— Barbara Abercrombie

Probably the only thing that isn't great is the time when I know I'm very close to finishing the actual writing of the story…

— Christopher Paul Curtis

When you're a writer, if you're very lucky, you create these characters that you fall in love with, and you feel like they're guiding…

— Janet Varney

I really become the characters when I'm writing them. I'll become one or two of them more than others, I'm consistent that way.

— Quentin Tarantino

For writers, so much is done in isolation. It can be easy to feel detached, or to get a little lost along the way.

— Brad Listi

I'm always writing from some difficult place and seeing how the character survives... or doesn't.

— Adam Silvera

The goal is to be both disciplined and loose, so that the writing does not turn into a task or a chore. To leave…

— Pete Hamill