Corporate world Quote by Ravi Subramanian

I think I'm a writer, and it's my job. People in other professions are expected to do their jobs all the time. Why shouldn't…

— Richard Greenberg

Without a story, people aren't going to connect to what you're telling, what you have a pain point about. It's so important for them…

— Payal Kadakia

It's not fun telling people they have to turn their stories in. But you can't actually have a creative work environment if there are…

— Alex Wagner

Writing was a way to get away from my life as a programmer, so I wanted to write about other things, but of course…

— Ellen Ullman

“The problem is that you don't always get to write your own story. You get written into some stories, and if ask why, there…

— Brendan Kiely

When I write, I tend to be quite cut off from the world. At that point of time, I'm not thinking about editors, publishers…

— Amish Tripathi

That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.

— Alexandra Fuller

I never started writing because I wanted to write myself stuff. It was really more that I had these stories to tell, and I…

— Josh Lawson

I come from a working-class background and it wasn't in my world to be a writer - I had no direct access to those…

— Roisin Conaty

I never get sick of writing my own stories because there's a certain comfort in knowing you will never run out of material. It's…

— Augusten Burroughs

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at…

— Amy Tan

Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever try this…

— Dennis Lehane