Alive Quote by R. A. Salvatore

I very much write from characters. Those people start speaking, and then I have them in the house with me and I live with…

— Wendy Wasserstein

I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.

— Markus Zusak

What writers do is they tell their own story constantly through other people's stories. They imagine other people, and those other people are carrying…

— Tobias Wolff

I think to the degree writers are serious, there is a greater tendency for them to write to themselves, because they're trying to compose…

— Marilynne Robinson

I think many people have wonderful stories inside them and the talent to tell those stories. But the writing life, with its isolation and…

— Ellen Ullman

It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer…

— Anne Tyler

I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do. I end up writing not…

— Akira Kurosawa

On the whole, stories don't write themselves.

— Neil Gaiman

...my basic belief about the making of stories is that they pretty much make themselves.

— Stephen King

I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.

— Alan Cheuse

A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing about.

— Sacheen Littlefeather

Once you write a book, you hand it over to the readers, and it's their book then. They're so involved. They ask questions about…

— Fiona Barton