Aggressive Quote by Sarah Stillman

My interest is in turning over a rock and seeing what's underneath. It's a personality trait more than anything; it's what made me want…

— Gillian Flynn

I'm a writer of fiction. I try to write about my time, but it's dangerous if I'm seen as an investigative writer. I manipulate…

— Abi Morgan

I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article…

— Amy Waldman

I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about -- police…

— Michael Connelly

I've got a particular way of writing novels, and that carries over into the way I write comics and games, too. I'm a news…

— Karen Traviss

My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politics and the like. At the time, I really…

— Tim Cahill

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day,…

— Daniel Pinkwater

My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by the hope…

— Tom Rachman

Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It's…

— Italo Calvino

I don’t think I would ever want to be a writer of detective stories - but I would like to be a detective and…

— Mary Lavin

I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know…

— Alma Guillermoprieto

I write about how I was attracted to stripping because I didn't feel comfortable with my body, for instance, but there could be plenty…

— Craig Seymour