Feels Quote by Michael Jackson

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

— Alan Furst

I hear a lot of, 'I'm a writer because of you.' It's not a bad feeling, but it sneaks up on you. You don't…

— Frank Peretti

I don't mind if what they write about me has some truth in it. Pure imagination makes me feel sad about the whole thing.

— Shaheer Sheikh

They may recognize themselves in what you're writing, and then they have to say, "Well, she doesn't see me as I see myself." All…

— Vivian Gornick

Sometimes the people around you really affect what you write.

— Susan Tedeschi

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.

— Andrea Hirata

It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person.…

— Irvine Welsh

Writers sometimes write things for me and I like to see what they write because I want to see what their take on my…

— Isaiah Mustafa

Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.

— Judith Guest

If you aren't talking to readers and letting them know you're just like them, they can lose interest.

— Anna Todd

People write to me all the time, and I write back.

— Lisa See

I suspect that every writer is secretly writing for someone.

— Brewster Ghiselin