Invites Quote by William Gibson

I try not to push characters too close to myself because they get harder to write, but as a writer, you try to find…

— Tom King

I just feel the need as a writer to try something kind of deep and fulfilling.

— Frank Peretti

“@bobbybaird i'm a writer, so are you. we try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. vain of us?…

— Walter Kirn

[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.

— Elizabeth Bowen

If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity - every writer has to try to…

— Randall Jarrell

Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer,…

— Walter Huston

I never really have blank page syndrome. I don't get blocked. I have a plan for my novel before I start which, although incomplete,…

— Ned Beauman

I'm still not sure what pulled me into the career I chose, even though, now, I can't imagine having done anything else. Mostly, I…

— Peter Gzowski

[A writer] must try to think clearly, to feel deeply, to write honestly. If he is fortunate he will make a living, but his…

— Lawrence Clark Powell

As a writer, you always try to imagine, 'What if I were in a situation like this? How would I react?'

— Erik Larson

When I was thinking about these women characters, no matter how bad a person I am - a bad writer, my limitations, my sexism,…

— Junot Diaz

I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked…

— John Ridley