Day Quote by Michael Hastings

I like to write a lot of satire.

— Earl King

I wrote for my high school and college newspapers. It was my only creative outlet in those days.

— Soupy Sales

I wish I was the kind of writer who would go to a war zone and write about something that's meaningful and important to…

— Jonathan Ames

You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent.

— Philip Roth

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

— Robert Harris

I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the…

— Karen Traviss

I do sometimes miss doing that lighter, more humorous work, and I find there's a heavier responsibility that goes along with a literary reputation.…

— Alison Bechdel

If you're going to write something, that's going to be read by people, a lot of people, you hope it will not only entertain…

— Stan Lee

I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have…

— Jennifer Weiner

A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or…

— Neil Gaiman

I am an old-fashioned storyteller. I try to make people laugh and cry. A fiction writer's duty is to entertain. If you can sneak…

— W. P. Kinsella