Behinds Quote by Tony Gilroy

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

— China Mieville

I like the varying rhythm of being a writer that you have a period of being in complete isolation where it's just you and…

— Patrick Marber

I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite and sometimes…

— Princess Superstar

I never leave the writer behind, because you rewrite the movie in post, or at least I do. I always do, and I feel…

— Steven Soderbergh

I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore.

— Errol Morris

I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that.

— Laura Lippman

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

— John Grisham

Rewriting isn't just about dialogue, it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene. All these…

— Tom Stoppard

I very much like people. I don't much like writers who don't.

— Jim Shepard

Writing for me is largely about rewriting.

— Khaled Hosseini

I've never really understood that whole thing of writers avoiding other writers' novels while they're working on their own.

— Ned Beauman

I don't read other writers because I'm writing all the time. It's too disturbing to read a writer with a good style when you're…

— Norman Mailer