Able Quote by Rie Rasmussen

That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some…

— Alan Lightman

An author's characters do what he wants them to do.

— W. E. B. Griffin

I think anybody who is writing finds he puts a little bit of himself in all of the characters, at least in this kind…

— Charles M. Schulz

It doesn't excite me as a writer to write some swearing or sex scenes, because they don't have any emotional content.

— Jed Mercurio

“People have an idea of what writers are: crazy; intellectual; moody; slightly more interesting than other people. Sometimes you just have to throw a…

— Alistair Cross

“If you can create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.”

— Somerset Maughn

“...no mind ever grew fat on a diet of novels. The pleasure which they occasionally offer is far too heavily paid for: they undermine…

— Elias Canetti

“Adding repulsive language and sex scenes do not make you a great author just because you are trying to relate to your audience.”

— Emily Kamminga

This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege,…

— Charles Lamb

“If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.” ~Somerset Maugham”

— Dennis Ward

There's something to be said for a likable character, but fiction has a way of upending our ordinary standards.

— Ben Dolnick

The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.

— Edna Ferber