“A person who wrote badly did better than a person who does not write at all. A bad writing can be corrected.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“But I loved those books or at least that first one. And I felt somewhere down deep inside him the person who… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy… — C. J. Box Copy Share Image
J. K. Rowling is one of my favourite authors, and I really admire how she created this big wizarding world. But I… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
“When there is fear,he will have his pen clasp it high,whence for him,the wonders of night give light,where he lies behind his… — Nithin Purple Copy Share Image
The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Burmese authors and artists can play the role that artists everywhere play. They help to mold the outlook of a society -… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
“In America the magazines in which one can frequently publish stories or poems about Negroes are very few, and most of these… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
'The New Jedi Order' was a pure publishing project: a single massive story - virtually one huge novel spread across multiple volumes… — Matthew Stover Copy Share Image
I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
“If you are working with authors, you are accepting a great responsibility and must tread very carefully. The author's work is a… — Terena Scott Copy Share Image
“We should not stray from the darkness within us, that thing we call our Shadow. We should embrace it and learn from… — Trevor Carter Copy Share Image
“Always write exactly what you’re feeling at the exact moment when writing something like poetry or an emotional novel. Put yourself, pour… — Nina Jean Slack Copy Share Image
With 'Crucible,' any big changes I wanted to make I only had to run by Lucasfilm, not other authors whose stories I… — Troy Denning Copy Share Image
“Their conversation ceased abruptly with the entry of an oddly-shaped man whose body resembled a certain vegetable. He was a thickset fellow… — Jeff Phillips Copy Share Image
Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects. — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
If you chase the market, it's not going to come to you. You have to have faith in yourself. I think one… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
“A writer is not born but made through study and sheer willpower and ability to embrace beauty and agony.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Just because you start attempting to do right, doesn’t mean people will let you forget about what you’ve done wrong…Be encouraged” — Kerry E. Wagner Copy Share Image
“An idea is a gift, a finished project is turning that gift into a book by making yourself write even when you… — Elaine Orr Copy Share Image
“What these critics forget is that printing presses in themselves provide no guarantee of an enlightened outcome. People, not machines, made the… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“The out-dated imagery of sitting over a dusty typewriter staring at blank pages for years is a fallacy and probably designed to… — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek Copy Share Image
Nalini Singh, J.D. Robb, Patricia Briggs, Shelby Reed - these are my pre-order, must-have authors. — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
