Behaviour Quote by Tony Gilroy

When it comes to people -- don't write about who you know; but what you know of human nature.

— Candace Bushnell

Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.

— Alice Walker

I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to…

— Susan Cain

If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it…

— Dave Eggers

Sometimes the people around you really affect what you write.

— Susan Tedeschi

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

— Anne Enright

Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

— Wole Soyinka

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

— Dani Shapiro

Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how…

— Mark Haddon

I write about my experiences, so a lot of times, I do write about people.

— India Arie

If you can't empathize with other people, then you will never really be able to write well about them.

— Rumaan Alam

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