Equity Quote by Natasha Rothwell

I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?'…

— Irvine Welsh

“Writers use both their blood and their brains to explore the darkest recesses of their pooling self. Writing allows us to harness the whimsy…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

You have to fire yourself as the writer when you direct something you've written. You have to fire yourself, or else you get precious…

— Joel Schumacher

I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that writers need…

— Nadine Gordimer

Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some creative purpose.

— Doris Grumbach

You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.

— Paul Haggis

I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the world they…

— Salman Rushdie

Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others,…

— Rebecca Solnit

To be a writer you need to see things as they are, and to see things as they are you need a certain basic…

— Tobias Wolff

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 are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is…

— E. L. Doctorow

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