Fiction Quote by Robert Harris

In TV, writers generally are the show runners, and they have enormous control over everything. In feature films, very often the writer will turn…

— Terence Winter

There's one massive problem with coming from writing novels into screenplays that I've discovered over the years, which is that you've got too much…

— Alex Garland

There's one massive problem with coming from writing novels into screenplays that I've discovered over the years, which is that you've got too much…

— Alex Garland

Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script writing. You…

— Matthew Specktor

Don't live with writers. Writers are bastards.

— Warren Ellis

In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can't let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to…

— Alan Lightman

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

— Anthony Doerr

The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people.

— John Grisham

It's our job as fiction writers to provide a delight that nothing else can - to such a degree that people have no choice…

— Jennifer Egan

I think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.

— Aaron Sorkin

Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.

— James Wolcott

Every fiction writer writes around the thing they will never say. Thats what fiction writers do

— Anonymous