A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonists taste in music, or… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies--but this is very different.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home. — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
“I tried to appear more normal than I was, so that those around me wouldn’t think I was less normal than I… — Elizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yury Nesis Copy Share Image
People love gossip because it's slightly removed from actuality. It's a very literary thing... You can hear a great story, and it… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus. — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program we required the poets to take workshops in fiction… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“By all the rules of modern fiction there should have been gunsmoke mingling its acrid blue with the brown haze of corral… — B.M. Bower Copy Share Image
I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable… — John Dalton Copy Share Image
“She snorted in amusement at my remark. “When are the guards going to start to notice?” Keith peered into the distance. “Starting… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“I love my career. It is a career. A difficult one that takes many hours and total dedication to my craft. It… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
My work is very eclectic. I write books that range from writing fiction, writing fable where I am very directly trying to… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
