Ability Quote by Olga Tokarczuk

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

— Katherine Paterson

I feel that there are two kinds of writers. I feel that there are writers who are storytellers and then there are those just…

— Steve Toltz

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm…

— Joss Whedon

Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.

— Trent Reznor

I read what I like to write: romantic suspense. I also love thrillers and novels of suspense, but I can't handle extreme violence and…

— Jayne Ann Krentz

Writing novels is where I'm most comfortable. It's a very intimate experience.

— Matthew Nable

I write with a sense of my future readers being ever on the verge of setting down the book and pronouncing it a bore.…

— Mary Roach

To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.

— Alison Pill

When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put…

— R. L. Stine

I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.

— Evelyn Waugh

Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for a while,…

— Emma Donoghue

Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane.

— Justin Halpern