Actress Quote by Mischa Temaul

Being an author means, almost by definition, that you make up characters and then complicate their lives. That's it, really. You make up characters…

— Maureen Johnson

There are some writers who also enjoy being authors, and are good at it as well. There is nothing performative about writing, but there…

— Hanya Yanagihara

The best thing about being an author is writing stories and having people - strangers all over the world - connect with them.

— Emily Giffin

Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling,…

— Santha Rama Rau

I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.

— Dean Wesley Smith

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

— Harlan Coben

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

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you…

— Jean M. Auel

Writing is transmogrifying, not just for the reader but also for the author; an author becomes someone he or she isn't by living the…

— Robert J. Sawyer

An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn't matter if you're a kid or if you're a grown-up, it doesn't matter if…

— Jarrett J. Krosoczka

A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.

— Philip Pullman