Experience Quote by Truman Capote

So if there was a way that I knew something about my character's desires or the things that they were resisting because I was…

— Molly Antopol

I feel that as a writer and as a performer too. I never really thought about backstory for characters. It was much more of…

— Brady Corbet

“I read not for entertainment but to feel what the writer has felt while writing even though if it was fiction.”

— Pushpa Rana

“Whether or not you employ humor in dealing with difficult subjects, the tone of the writing is of the utmost importance. Personally, I can…

— Judith Barrington

I think every writer's had the experience of having a really good idea, waiting to write it, and then once you write it, you're…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

They may recognize themselves in what you're writing, and then they have to say, "Well, she doesn't see me as I see myself." All…

— Vivian Gornick

Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether.

— Norman Mailer

...fiction is made out of the writer's experience, his whole life from infancy on, everything he's thought and done and seen and read and…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

— Isadora Duncan

Don't put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a…

— Arthur Hailey

For many of us, work is the one place where we feel appreciated. The things that we long to experience at home - pride…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my…

— Gary Shteyngart