Definitions Quote by Richard K. Morgan

“It's only a story.' As if such words made it less real. But I did not believe him even then, for stories were written…

— Keith Donohue

The writer, like everyone else, is equipped in infancy with a thick padding of things he believes to be true, but which aren't.

— Jon Franklin

What I'm trying to say is that a lot that lies behind being able to live the writing life is psychological and wrapped up…

— Nathan Englander

The truth is I tried to write for years and I wasn't very good.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

I don't think I wrote stories down when I was young, but I certainly made them up, perhaps sometimes losing track of the border…

— Jo Beverley

Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write…

— Isadora Duncan

There are certain things I couldn't write because they're not intrinsic to my beliefs. For instance, I couldn't write a hero or heroine who…

— Lori Foster

I think I have written the things I was put on Earth to write.

— Michel Faber

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

— Italo Calvino

I guess that my opinion of writing about real people is informed by defenses of Joyce Maynard's memoir, that the experiences were a part…

— Marie Calloway

I don't write anything that I haven't lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond…

— John Eldredge

Actually, the true story of a person's life can never be written. It is beyond the power of literature. The full tale of any…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer