Books Quote by Pat Mora

Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s end….Then, again,…

— Anonymous

The job of the writer is to look at where he is now and make some sort of emotional sense of it, not only…

— Colum McCann

That's the moment you look for as a writer, when the characters start telling you what they are doing rather than you telling them.

— Mike Bartlett

All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.

— Ernest Gaines

Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's life needs…

— Diane Setterfield

I always love stories that do a big time leap where the past informs the present, where you find out what became of some…

— Ruth Jones

The Time that Remains is a way of interpreting a certain ambience or emotion. These are the stories that my father told me over…

— Elia Suleiman

A new writer starting out today, whether it's for TV or film, they have to remember that they're telling the story to themselves first…

— Tony Grisoni

“sometimes in life, short-lived STORIES can have life-lasting effects and MEMORIES.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

“a lifetime of stories”

— Margot Lee Shetterly

What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it…

— Carolyn Heilbrun

A story isn't about a moment in time, a story is about the moment in time.

— Walter D. Wetherell