Five Quote by Larry Niven

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

— Dennis Potter

Everything about writing is hard for me except for that - the names pop into my head. That's one of the reasons why I…

— Kate DiCamillo

And the writers are good in that it's easy to memorize, and good writing has an innate rhythm to it. And I've always felt…

— Glenn Close

Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you'll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And then you'll…

— Henry David Thoreau

All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to…

— Penelope Lively

Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day.

— Richard Price

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

— Fannie Hurst

I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the…

— Tayari Jones

I'm awful with names, I blame my dyslexia. There've been so many awkward moments, but I've learned to work wonders with a simple 'Hey,…

— Judi Love

For everyone I know who is a writer, there was some awkward time in their lives when they had to learn to call themselves…

— James Bernard Frost

I tell myself that some names can be mistakes, like Mxyplyzyk, a store in New York that lost customers because few could spell its…

— Caroline Leavitt

You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to…

— Chris Terrio