The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in…

“I knew I must write a novel. But it seemed an impossible thing to do when I had been trying with great difficulty to…

— Hemingway Ernest

I write from seven to about noon. I used to try to write longer, but I read and I found that I was always…

— Robert Caro

I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.

— Peter Straub

It all depends on what I'm working on and if there is a deadline involved. Anything that's headed toward a magazine or newspaper is…

— Kevin Keck

You can't write a children's book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents batty. It…

— Michael Ian Black

I got in journalism for any number of reasons, not least because it's so much fun. Journalism should be in the business of putting…

— David Remnick

As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the…

— Oscar Wilde

journalism was for me more than a business or a profession. It was a way of living, of experiencing the world even as I…

— Andrea Mitchell

The basic problem is with the business model of journalism. That business model is premised on the idea that talk is cheap and reporting…

— Jonathan Alter

I've been able to write at least one book a year for 20 years, and I don't think I would've had that kind of…

— Michael Connelly

Every journalism bromide - speaking truth to power, comforting the afflicted, afflicting the powerful - that otherwise would be hopelessly sappy to a journalist…

— Michael Wolff

Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only…

— Gene Wolfe

“It’s a great day to write a best-seller.”

— Buffy Andrews

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

— Louis Garrel

My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and…

— Tracy Chevalier