if you are satisfied with your first draft you are not…

“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

— Kevin Ansbro

I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next…

— Robert Reed

Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,…

— Ishmael Reed

“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

— Christopher K. Krebs

“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

— Louisa May Alcott

If I don't know who I'm writing for, I make it up and pick somebody I'm writing for. That's really the only way to…

— Craig Mazin

At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I…

— Ben Schwartz

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

— Anna Quindlen

It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't…

— Patrick Rothfuss

It took me 20 years to buy an electric typewriter, because I was afraid it would be too sensitive. I like to bang the…

— Elmore Leonard

“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”

— Markus Herz

I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

— Betsy Lerner

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

— Moliere

“Note found in the patron suggestion box: "You have SIGNS up near the computers that say BE QUIET, but people don't be quiet. They…

— Gina Sheridan