“What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they ask for advice,… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people. — Henry Williamson Copy Share Image
“You may think novelists always have fixed plans to which they work, so that the future predicted by Chapter One is always… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“You can’t give what you don’t have. To write, you must read. To write well, read well.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe. — Robert Black Copy Share Image
I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“I am hard at work on the second draft ... Second draft is really a misnomer as there are a gazillion revisions,… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“The only time I've ever learned anything from a review was when John Lanchester wrote a piece in the Guardian about my… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
I read reviews and consider myself pretty 'plugged in' to the literary cosmos, yet one of the things I love best about… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
My advice to authors would be to try to do something original rather than to try to anticipate what the market is… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
“Words raced thru his mind and his fingers ached to capture them all on paper.” — Eveli Acosta Copy Share Image
Agents are deal makers, and they're really, really good at making deals. But they're also exceptionally helpful after the deal is made… — John Romaniello Copy Share Image
“People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.” — Dermot Davis Copy Share Image
“Cuz even a gangsta rapper can find redemption For the sins committed before revelation.” — Carlos Salinas Copy Share Image
“We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“I often said that writers are of two types. There is the architect, which is one type. The architect, as if designing… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works. — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
“There should be more to writing than entertaining an already-brain-dead society and making money. If not,then you miss the point of writing.” — Carol Morgan Copy Share Image
I have no problem selling ebooks for authors directly as an agent, but partnering with them is another matter. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“You shouldn't write about your personal life', says the one feeling threatened by the truth to the writer.” — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“Personal angst, agony, anger, anxiety and pleasure might produce good poetry. However, to create the best, as many poets have expressed in… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
“Some people get offended by what I write, by what I do with my life and by what I say to those… — Daniel Marques Copy Share Image
It is easy to club people together, but there are bound to be influences of authors you've read. I grew up reading… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
