Come Quote by Leslie Uggams

I love being able to create something from the page and bring it to life.

— Anonymous

I try to be a lot of things for the authors I work with - a careful reader, a helpful friend who also happens…

— Kevin Sampsell

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

— Anthony Bourdain

My job is writing for people to enjoy and then writing about a broader and a deeper world.

— Walter Mosley

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and…

— Richard Powers

I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love…

— Tanith Lee

My job is to get people to write something truthful, something about truth and beauty - wherever they are - and to understand how…

— Grace Paley

Being open to the unexpected allows me to bring so much to my craft.

— Marcel Wanders

“From my writer's workshop, "Know when it's time to put everything you've got on the page. Then, rip open a vein and do it!”

— Heather Burch

My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.

— Barry Lopez

I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.

— Charlie Kaufman

My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do…

— Wendelin Van Draanen