As long as thriller authors teach us about our world, they'll be relevant. — David Morrell Copy Share Image
“The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.” — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
“Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.” — Meagan Spooner Copy Share Image
“Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’." (on Lillian Hellman)” — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“You can, of course, write to inspire others… but most importantly, you must write to inspire yourself.” — Jessica Swan Copy Share Image
“Embrace your inner goddess, never let go of the light you carry within.” — Cynthia Dougherty-Bernal Copy Share Image
Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“A writer is never just looking out of a window or staring into space. They are building a universe to share with… — Brenda Ashworth Barry Copy Share Image
“Artist paint images unseen, musicians create sounds that emerge from silence, and authors write from a synthetic point of view about a… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just… — Lee Child 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
“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by… — Charles Brower Copy Share Image
I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Authors as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, E. Nesbit, and J. R. R. Tolkien have shaped modern paganism as greatly as any theological… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do. I don't wanna get ideas above… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I've always said "Writer's Block" is a myth. There is no such thing as writer's block, only writers trying to force something… — Julie Ann Dawson Copy Share Image
“All Jane Austen novels have a common storyline: an attractive and virtuous young woman surmounts difficulties to achieve marriage to the man… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
We see them when they come to New York. They stay at my wife's apartment. We have quite a correspondence with them… — James Laughlin 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
I want to offer a word of encouragement to authors: You have to feel called to the message of your book enough… — Jud Wilhite Copy Share Image
Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“Many believe creativity is mystery, and I always knew that my body is the key.” — Lara Biyuts 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
“Of all the advantages that ghostwriting offers, one of the greatest must be the opportunity that you get to meet people of… — Andrew Crofts 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
“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
As white authors, bloggers, and readers, we must stop promoting diversity as a business opportunity or a chance to buy ally points… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
“I'm going to be a person who writes stories. I never told mom and dad how much I loved them. I wanna… — Aoboshi Kimama Copy Share Image
“I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
A lot of young-adult authors, great ones, have tried their hands at literary fiction, and not a lot of them have succeeded.… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“A demon, who serves to a warlock, begins tormenting his master, if he has not enough work. Talent is the demon.” — Lara Biyuts Copy Share Image
Publishers, editors, agents all have one thing in common, aside from their love of cocktail parties. It's an incredible taste and an… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of… — Sara Levine 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
“To most, being locked away in solitary with nothing but pen and paper would prove a hard punishment. What a strange creature… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“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
I was frustrated for a long time with my colleagues in the business school world and with so many management authors who… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
