The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.
Chris Abani
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
Lynn Abbey
I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.
I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent... →
I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I... →
I'm a fast writer.
J. J. Abrams
I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew that there was something inside me that wanted... →
Chinua Achebe
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
Dean Acheson
I write sentence to sentence. That's the kind of writer I am. I don't have a plot when I begin. I have to be convinced and I have to be... →
Lorraine Adams
I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The... →
Scott Adams