Ability Quote by Wim Wenders

Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.

— Robert Kirkman

And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up…

— Norton Juster

I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the…

— Ray Charles

I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say…

— Andrew Greeley

For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of benevolent deity. And, for…

— Sarah MacLean

I hate to write! But I love to talk, so I'm told that when people read my books, it like I'm there just talking…

— Steven Gundry

Whenever I write, I write very dialogue-heavy things because I love to force my characters to interact with one another.

— Lauren Ashley Carter

I don't want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There's a facility in that kind of writing.

— Richard LaGravenese

I've never talked to anyone writing a book on me. I've had so much written about me that is made up, usually something that…

— Warren Beatty

I'm sure that everything you do contributes to the sort of novel that you write. A lot of actors have an understanding of drama…

— Rachel Joyce

I feel like one can have all of that as a writer; you're writing, you're reading, you're talking to interesting and intelligent people. Your…

— Sheila Heti

You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to…

— Chris Terrio