Believe Quote by Megan Chance

I believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit to look…

— Margery Allingham

I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that…

— Lynn Abbey

“The clientele was good for the mental novel she was writing, anyway—she needed a fictional population and she certainly was exposed to it here.…

— J.T. Ellison

“Part of dedicating your life to studying literature is realizing that storytelling is more than just make-believe and that make-believe is far more important…

— Laurie Frankel

“She read every author she could get her hands on who wrote a strong female protagonist who triumphed in the end.”

— Wendy Wax

I always feel that as the author, once I know what a character is ashamed of, then I can go about making her truthful…

— Joshua Mohr

“I was a little resentful that when a woman writes, her personal story becomes part of the story, even though the novel is fiction.”

— Roxane Gay

Whether or not you agree with Ayn Rand - and I have certain issues with some of her beliefs - the woman can tell…

— Anne Hathaway

Love your material. Nothing frightens the inner critic more than the writer who loves her work. The writer who is enamored of her material…

— Allegra Goodman

She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric.

— Michael Cunningham

A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear.

— Cinda Williams Chima

We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of…

— Gregory Maguire