Alone Quote by Mary Pilon

A writer is an artist. They're creating things out of thin air.

— Bibi Bourelly

Writers have the purity of their art and what they want to achieve with that, and that this purity is bound up with the…

— Chad Harbach

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.

— Henry Williamson

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people.

— Henry Williamson

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the…

— John le Carre

I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the…

— Arthur Smith

The creative process requires a period of boredom, of being stuck. That's actually a very uncomfortable period that a lot of people mistake for…

— Graham Linehan

Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when…

— John le Carre

To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on…

— Aldous Huxley

“Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see our creations…

— Brian A. McBride

I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really fully either…

— Khaled Hosseini

From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power…

— Joe Eszterhas