Character Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

Writing from a character is really fun - sometimes you can be more honest through somebody else's perspective.

— Willy Mason

I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then it is…

— Etgar Keret

With writing, I think you have to be honest with yourself. I have a certain kind of writing; that is, I like to really…

— Sylvester Stallone

Ultimately, I think writing is a mixture of craft, inspiration, and being incredibly, courageously explorative with yourself - and being brutally honest, too.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

To me, writing is fun. It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story.

— Stan Lee

It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's…

— Jonah Peretti

Most writers write from their own experiences. That is where the honesty and intensity of emotions come from.

— Ravi Subramanian

No matter what kind of writing you do, it's always the details that make the story.

— Elizabeth Berg

You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.

— Haruki Murakami

I like to write about people who are real and likeable. I like to write about people who tell their stories in that close…

— Katherine Center

Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The…

— Ashwin Sanghi

“Writing is about allowing yourself to become a vessel of creativity. Writers are avatars of creation. We have tender hearts, and strong emotions. It's…

— Sai Marie Johnson