The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get through the day. When I'm writing, I have to... →
David O. Russell
I hope that in my thirties I grow as a writer, push into new territory.
Karen Russell
I do extensive research before I begin writing, but only a fraction of the research goes into the novels. The writer does not need to tell the reader... →
Edward Rutherfurd
A writer's main tool is his memory - his own memory, the collective memory of his people. And the strongest memory is the one that is created by... →
Anatoly Rybakov
The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.
Fred Saberhagen
I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't... →
The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.
Vita Sackville-West
A painter, a sculptor, a writer, they can express freely. They don't affect society as a whole. We build buildings that have a purpose, that stay... →
Moshe Safdie
It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude... →
Jerry Saltz
I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to... →
R. A. Salvatore