Meant to be Quote by Mark Haddon

Being a showrunner meant writing and producing a television show, period, but with 'Lost,' suddenly it became part of the job to promote and…

— Carlton Cuse

“My mother always said that I would come to a bad end but I never thought she meant this - writing allegory in literal…

— Peter Murphy

My family life reads a bit like 'Little House on the Prairie.' I was big sister to Joan, Renee, and brother William, and we…

— Maeve Binchy

I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in…

— Dorothea Benton Frank

“When people stop writing down their stories, the soul the world is lost.”

— Ann Aguirre

I didn't do anything as active as deciding that I wanted to be a writer. For one thing, I didn't feel like I was…

— Kelly Link

I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later…

— Etgar Keret

“When my mother would tell me that she wanted me to have something because she as a child had never had it, I wanted,…

— Eudora Welty

I was very in my own head as a kid. But I liked it there! I was just writing poetry, writing stories, writing plays.…

— Arlo Parks

Writing two stories [in the Thorn and the Blossom] about the same set of events that were complete stories in themselves, but also added…

— Theodora Goss

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.

— W. Somerset Maugham

When I was writing stories about Chinese American characters in my fiction classes, I'd get comments like, 'You should consider writing more universal stories.'…

— Jenny Zhang