Blood Quote by Robert Morgan

“Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.”

— Chuck Wendig

I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing…

— Pam Houston

A lot of writers write for an audience that's going to understand them.

— Torrey Peters

There are so many burning issues to be dealt with that it's completely understandable and natural that a character is struggling with these issues…

— Colm Meaney

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Good writers may “tell” about almost anything in fiction except the characters’ feelings. One may tell the reader that the character went to a…

— John Gardner

I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.

— Marsha Norman

“In my classes, we read great fiction obsessively, and then attempt to see how a writer managed to affect us. We try to understand…

— Dean Bakopoulos

A lot of times students will come up to me and say, "Well, I can't write because I don't know what I think about…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

I like to tell students, 'I didn't burst on to the literary scene.' I'm never good at things at the beginning. I was terrible…

— Markus Zusak

I've had many students over the years, sometimes even very sophisticated students, who will be writing and will hit a wall. Often I find…

— T.C. Boyle

“Writing a book is a blood sport. If it doesn't hurt when you're done, you're probably doing something wrong.”

— Kevis Hendrickson