Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.
The most original novelist now writing in English.
Be your own teacher. Let life write your textbook.
Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
The act of composition is a series of discoveries.
If you own this story you get to write the ending.
Write about it by day and dream about it by night.
Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.
What we know about writing the novel is the novel.
I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so.
Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
I have to always remember, writing is really hard.
Writing novels is an essentially amateur activity.
Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.
I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.
Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.
Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
I can be a little OCD when it comes to my writing.
Each play I write has its own unique origin story.
You write your life story by the choices you make.
Let's give the historians something to write about
And I could write it better than you ever felt it.
Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.
Writing my blog has saved me thousands on therapy.
It is far easier to travel than to write about it.
I didn't want to write a book. They made me do it.
People write to me all the time, and I write back.
I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
Just write every day of your life. Read intensely.
You don't teach information in a writing workshop.
It just happens I write fast and always have done.
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.
To know whom to write for is to know how to write.
Writers . . . write to give reality to experience.
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
I didn’t write the rules. Why would I follow them?
When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.
I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.
I love reading; it's a great way to avoid writing.
Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink
I can't start writing until I have a closing line.
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
I would normally never set out to write a trilogy.
May God blast anyone who writes a biography of me.
As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.
Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.
It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book.