“His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“The very qualities that make one a writer in the first place contribute to the block: hypersensitivity, stubbornness, insatiability, and so on.… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
I began as a poet, moved to short fiction, then to novel writing, and, for the past twelve years, back to stories.… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
“Novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy. Trying something, and when that doesn't work, trying something else. Welcoming… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“True writers know that writing is not something they feel required to do, or to make a living they must do, it… — Milissa R. Bailey Copy Share Image
“Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Novel writing, I soon discovered, is like channel swimming: a slow and steady stroke over a long distance in a cold, dark… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Some people when they see cheese, chocolate or cake they don't think of calories.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Anybody can do research. The plotting of the novel, writing the ending before you write anything else, which I always do -… — John Irving Copy Share Image
A logic proof is: you get a starting point and an ending point, and you have to get there through all these… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
“Theoretically there's no reason one should get [writer's block], if one understands that writing, after all, is only writing, neither something one… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“If she was going to write a novel, she felt defeated before she began, because someone might be coming along to pick… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
“You've told a good story in a skillful manner. I like it that you haven't moralized about your heroine's mistakes. You've made… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
