Charge Quote by Peter Straub

Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps…

— Aaron Ashmore

There are moments when I am writing when I think that if other people knew how I felt right now, they’d burn me at…

— Anne Lamott

Pretty much everything I've written is a mix of excitement and fear.

— Marlon James

Julia's vocabulary was "chock-full" of strangely archaic words - "spiffing," "crumbs," "jeepers" - that seemed to have originated in some prewar girls' annual rather…

— Kate Atkinson

I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.

— Wally Lamb

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

— James Broughton

I think my biggest revelation was to write entirely from the heart, and to convey emotion, even when it meant forcing myself to feel…

— Alex Gaskarth

There's always that moment when you realize what it's going to be. You might have an overarching theme and you need to fill in…

— Rosanne Cash

“Isn't the writing of good prose an emotional excitement?" "Yes, of course it is. At least, when you get the thing dead right and…

— Dorothy Sayers

“others made their offerings with a quavery touch of excitement that I was beginning to recognize as a desire to get closer to the…

— Sarah Perry

I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things happen that…

— Louis L'Amour

It's fun to figure out a way to make something happen that will get the reader involved on a visceral level. When written well,…

— Nick Petrie