Arcs Quote by Vera Nazarian

Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to recover from the…

— Red Haircrow

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

— Isabel Allende

Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is perturbing my…

— Siegfried Lenz

Every writer follows a theme, and mine is survival. If you can't figure out what a writer's theme is, look at the books you…

— Sylvia Day

I try to write characters that are as real, emotionally and psychologically, as I can make them; I feel the same way about setting.…

— Lauren Oliver

As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline,…

— Rosanne Cash

Life throws surprises, sorrows, sadness, and hardship, and I think that writing has actually grounded me. It kept me grounded when everything else was…

— Sandra Brown

Generally, I think most of my writing tends to have some kind of magical element to it. That's the way I can access the…

— Aimee Bender

You will feel discouraged; you will lose confidence in your abilities; you will be bored with the characters–and the only way to overcome these…

— John Dufresne

Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your…

— Rafael Yglesias

I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because…

— Alan Cumming

We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring themes are…

— Sara Zarr