Assignments Quote by Jonathan Lethem

If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.

— Chris Brogan

Bob Wallace was my editor at Rolling Stone when I first started writing there, and he's a wonderful editor. I was in the Philippines…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“All the characters in my book are fictional, but every single one of them was inspired by someone I knew and loved who didn't…

— Sanela Ramic Jurich

Never settle for being a character in someone else's story when you are meant to be the author of your own.

— Pacifiersucker

“Authors only write what their characters tell them. Which mean we are scribes, and the characters are the author.”

— Anna-Cosette

Before I ever begin writing a new story, I have to sketch my characters out on paper. It's part of my process of understanding…

— Marie Lu

realized that at a level I'd never been conscious we'd been engaged in a game of wits for years. I suppose most writer-subject pairings…

— Walter Kirn

No matter what you set out to do and how you set out to do it, you ultimately have to be who you are,…

— Dennis Haysbert

“Whoever authors your story authorizes your actions.”

— Sam Keen

“Anthony DeCurtis came on board as a line editor and right away the project hit another level; his input snapped my sometimes flabby prose…

— Tom Moon

“My characters were...rebelling against something...My own bad writing. I wouldn't do for my characters what they needed for me to do - be courageous…

— John Scalzi

It is a wonderful thing in the process of writing when such paper characters are first sketched, and, when one is doing good work,…

— Gunter Grass