About Quote by Morris Gleitzman

As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues.

— Eric Jerome Dickey

Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is perturbing my…

— Siegfried Lenz

All my stories are mainly slice-of-life and rooted to real issues and situations that I have experienced myself.

— Shoojit Sircar

Ideas for stories come in really different terms and really different ways for me. Sometimes they're from books, sometimes they're just kind of out…

— Brian Evenson

I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to. And often seem to write about situations that are…

— Kenneth Lonergan

I try not to push characters too close to myself because they get harder to write, but as a writer, you try to find…

— Tom King

The stories tend to be what I work on when I'm stuck. Something will just pop into my head and I'll think that's more…

— Jess Walter

My stories are character driven.

— Terry McMillan

I'm always writing across the same themes. But with short stories, I'm doing something different than with novels. In some ways, they're coming from…

— Lynn Coady

My stories are pretty simplistic, but the characters are always complex and always right, and that comes from the script and my research and…

— Tony Scott

There are definitely parts of me in most of the protagonists I write, but I find a bit of distance can be useful, so…

— John K. Samson

My stories often begin with a situation or character rather than an insight about the human condition. It's always been difficult for me to…

— Karl Iagnemma