Happened Quote by Samantha Morton

What really grabs me is when a reader writes to express her personal story and how a book helped her situation, or her acceptance…

— Lurlene McDaniel

There are some people who have been reading me for years, and they keep saying kind things about the writing. That's what you're writing…

— Elmore Leonard

I generally respond to any story very organically.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

I felt that writing about peoples' lives was a heck of a responsibility, and I wanted to know them in a deep way.

— Matthew Desmond

I'm more interested in writing about the personal stories of people. Sometimes I don't agree with them.

— Patterson Hood

bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it

— Charles Bukowski

I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

— Callie Khouri

So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.

— Brit Marling

“But it has been my way—as a woman, but also as a writer—to speak of the kinds of human experience so many of us…

— Joyce Maynard

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves,…

— Adrienne Rich

I think I'm a pretty average person, and I respond to positive things, so I write for myself.

— Janet Evanovich

I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

— Callie Khouri