I would be perfectly willing if a publisher came up to me…

You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel.

— Eve Bunting

“Trawling through a dusty attic of my addled memory I found that I’d been rather in a lot of daft and amusing situations, so…

— Guy Pratt

“If a plot is a novel's skeleton, and characters are the muscle, then theme is its soul.”

— Janice Hardy

“One author said "I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history.” It's hard to live a footprint in…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“When Stephen King elaborated on his inspirations for his novel "Carrie" he draws from a time when he was a young man, and describes…

— Stephen King

“I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not afraid anymore, because…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on the way.”

— Joyce Rachelle

“The best ending ever, for a science fiction book - or any novel, now that I think about it - was in Rendezvous With…

— John Gaver

“All experiences change us and personal writing is one of the most powerful agencies of change. The person who wrote these personal essays no…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Coffee, my delight of the morning; yoga, my delight of the noon. Then before nightfall, I run along the pleasant paths of the Jardin…

— Roman Payne

“Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely. We can unlock our lives with a pencil tip.”

— Bonnie Friedman

“Getting inspired is simple: it just requires hard work. ”

— Marion Kummerow

“Time spent doing whatever it is you do to escape your daily life would be better spent acquiring a life that needs no escape.”

— Shaun Hick

“If you can't write, read. If you can't read, walk. Or walk and read, then write.”

— Joyce Rachelle

“The pen is an extension of my anatomy.”

— Abhijit Naskar