Alive Quote by Michael Scott

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.

— Doris Lessing

There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is…

— Margaret Mahy

It amazes me there are movies about writers... such inert, uneventful lives.

— John Cooper Clarke

Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

— Salman Rushdie

Life can be unsettling. Writers have always gravitated to conflict, unhappiness and disturbing themes. We as readers would get bored pretty quickly if stories…

— Clarence Major

Like most writers, I sit in a room and scribble a story and you don't have a connection with the people who take your…

— Michael Morpurgo

Building a character - nothing gives me more high than the process of exploring someone else's life on screen.

— Rajkummar Rao

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

— William Gaddis

I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent,…

— Mark Haddon

I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

— Augusten Burroughs

I used to be surprised and a little annoyed when characters would reappear in my mind, itching to be in another story. Now I…

— Peter Orner

You have to live in order to have something to write about - you get caught up in moviemaking and celebrities and money, and…

— John Patrick Shanley