“Show me you care about our common tongue. Bring to your [writing] passion, deeply informed by knowledge of your subject. Stay me,… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
“The time is ripe for young Indian authors writing in the English language.” — Anurag Shourie Copy Share Image
“Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“I'm not stupid and I'm not brainy. I just lack execution sometimes. I'm more of a "I should have said that" kind… — Ellie Williams Copy Share Image
“Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’." (on Lillian Hellman)” — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The lot of the bride to be wed before bed desired until rotten. The lot of the author to be read before… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.” — Seeley James Copy Share Image
“If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“You'll be amazed how much you have in common with Edith Wharton (who struggled to feel worthy of success), Louisa May Alcott… — Nava Atlas Copy Share Image
“Yes, I am an author. I have written some beautiful love stories and witnessed some ugly relationships.” — Nitin Kumar Copy Share Image
The great thing about the Cthulhu shared-world setting is that no one owns the copyright, so I'm not constrained by publisher conventions,… — David Conyers Copy Share Image
'The New Yorker's fiction podcast I like a lot, where they have authors pick short stories by other authors that appeared in… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“An increasing number of people are taking advantage of having a leg up on their competition by branding themselves as "the expert"… — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest gifts we can give someone is our undivided attention--a thought that whispers constantly in the ear of any… — Ella J. Fraser Copy Share Image
“Some writers need to sink in order to feel what their characters feel; in order to write their characters with the truest… — Lori Lifsey Copy Share Image
“Thus far, the only people who can grant you immortality are not scientists, but writers. By writing you into their books, they… — Charbel Tadros Copy Share Image
Among non-fiction authors I like Richard Bach, Nichiren Daishonin, Burton Watson, Deepak Chopra and MJ Akbar. — Mukul Dev Copy Share Image
“Writing is a conduit. It opens up a passageway into the past. Not just for the writer, but for the reader too.… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
“It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“In art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Advice to my younger self: 1 Start where you are with what you have 2 Try not to hurt other people 3… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
“An author simply comes up with a hypothetical question, and then spends eight months and 80 thousands words to come up with… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
