Approach Quote by Karen Traviss

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'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any…

— Lou Reed

I don't write fiction but I do write narrative; I write memoirs that I treat like stories, so whenever I'm using somebody I actually…

— Vivian Gornick

I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article…

— Amy Waldman

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any…

— Lou Reed

I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and fantasy, and…

— Roger Zelazny

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

— Lincoln Child

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

— Jackie Collins

I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.

— Fay Weldon

I'm not a writer, inherently. Most of the writers I've met have stories they need to tell. I don't have that. I'm an interpreter.…

— Mark Strong

I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the…

— Al Yankovic