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Writing Quotes - Page 427

There's a lot of thievery involved in writing. You're breaking into other people's spaces and other people's stories.

"Michael Ondaatje, Among Thieves". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2011.

The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.

Michael Cunningham (2014). “The Snow Queen: A Novel”, p.111, Macmillan

If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of everyone standing around talking.

"Michael Arndt Digs Into ‘Toy Story 3’ and the Genius of the Pixar System". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 07, 2010.