Life is like a book.. It takes months or maybe years to print.. but just a second to burn in a fire.. — Kand3n Copy Share Image
I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you. — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
“The freelance writer is one who is paid per piece, or per word, or perhaps.” – Peter Benchley” — Gabriel Boutros Copy Share Image
With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot. — David Shields Copy Share Image
Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation — May Sarton Copy Share Image
But, the body in the library? I mean, Professor Peach in the library with a lead pipe. — Donna Noble Copy Share Image
Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore,… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
“Not everyone who knows how to write can be a writer. Not everyone who knows two languages can be a translator.” — Nataly Kelly Copy Share Image
Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere. — Don Roff Copy Share Image
A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter.… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
Gone are the days when a publisher could take out an ad, count on a few reviews, and have an author do… — John Searles Copy Share Image
It is important to send your work to as many publishers as possible. For every one publisher who may show interest in… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
I think something many of us grapple with are those times we dread the practice of writing, no matter the project. — Ben Doller Copy Share Image
“But, after a while, I actually began to enjoy reading those books, because we were very poor. But between the covers of… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
Books are health food for your brain and dessert for your soul. Books are one of the few proven sources of mental… — Pat Williams Copy Share Image
I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer,… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also,… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
There are as many different ways to write a novel as there are varieties of human consciousness, so I am totally delighted… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
When you're writing you're constantly fighting demons to sit down and do what you do. If you listen to the voices outside… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
