One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to…

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

— Alain de Botton

I always feel that as the author, once I know what a character is ashamed of, then I can go about making her truthful…

— Joshua Mohr

I'm probably the only bestselling author you know who's written more books than she's read.

— Suze Orman

When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.

— Cesare Pavese

As the author you know how you want it to appear on screen and it's always the content dictating the form.

— Woody Allen

I see no reason to stop writing. But the reason isn't always one of your own. The mind is not invulnerable, and it can…

— Robert Coover

I've always thought of myself as a reporter. When people ask why I don't stop writing, I say, 'Look at what's happening in this…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick.

— Gore Vidal

I don't know what my friends do. Generally they become producers. That way they can stop writing!

— Rod Serling

“But perhaps the answer is to stop writing altogether, for when I do write, even now as I write this very sentence, this very…

— Diane Setterfield

I will never stop writing. People often ask when I will retire, but I say it's none of their business. Writing defines who I…

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

I can't decide for you whether or not you have got to write, but if anything in the world, war, or pestilence, or famine,…

— William Saroyan

“One of the vital things for a writer who’s writing a book, which is a lengthy project and is going to take about a…

— Roald Dahl

“When people stop writing down their stories, the soul the world is lost.”

— Ann Aguirre

When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when…

— Hilary Mantel