Able Quote by Sloane Crosley

“I hear you're a writer,' said 2040..."What are you writing about?' Not liking to discuss my writing with strangers, I had been privately auditioning…

— Phoebe Damrosch

“Everybody wants to talk about themselves, and everybody wants to hear everybody else's story, so we take turns playing reporter and celebrity.”

— Ryu Murakami

“Writers are a strange breed. After all, we hear voices in our heads all the time, and sometimes, we even talk to them as…

— Stevie J. Cole

“Socially interacting with a storyteller can be a frustrating challenge because a portion of her awareness is constantly sorting through the details of a…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and listen. Let…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Valerie Martin was my mentor in college and she liked fiction that said something. That made it essential to have something to say. This…

— Sabina Murray

I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.

— Joan Didion

When I write, I actually hear the characters speak. Almost like an actor - even though I'm not an actor at all - getting…

— Kareem Mortimer

“I want to write a book called “Conversations.” Of course, it’s all talk at this point.”

— Jarod Kintz

Normally writers do not talk much,because they are saving their conversations for the readers of their book- those invisible listeners with whom we wish…

— Ruskin Bond

“Discover everything about your characters that you can before you write your story. If you get stuck at any point, they will write your…

— Michael J. Kannengieser