“I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
There are plenty of writers who are going to become a director after their next job, but no one will believe you're… — Brian Helgeland Copy Share Image
The problems faced by writers of color are analogous to the problems face by women writers. — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“One Bagatelle, and I’ll raise you a novel,” Megan had tweeted back. “Writing for tea? Now that would have been a solution… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate. — John Metcalf Copy Share Image
Procrastination: as endemic to and dreaded by writers as writers' block. — Jenna Blum Copy Share Image
“Harriet pushed her hair back and looked at him seriously. 'Sport, what are you going to be when you grow up?' 'You… — Louise Fitzhugh Copy Share Image
Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never do. I don't think journalism… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I couldn't choose a favourite author, but two contemporary writers who have never disappointed me are Tim Winton and Alice Munro. — Mariella Frostrup 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
To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front… — Kate Baldwin Copy Share Image
I absolutely don't write for women - far, far from it. It's so not what I want to do. Some of the… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels. — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
“They were learning that New York had another life, too — subterranean, like almost everything that was human in the city —… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Popularizing - much less venturing beyond one's secure turf - was frowned upon for many years. I think I probably internalized the… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Writers who take on polarising issues are apt to step on a few toes. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
