“In the tapestry of a writer’s life, heartbreak is the thread that weaves the most intricate and haunting patterns.” ” — Dr. Nitin Chopra Copy Share Image
“I believe you can consider yourself a successful prose writer when the number of words you put on a page each day… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Concentrate on sharpening your memory and peeling your sensibility. Cut every page you write by at least one third. Stop constructing those… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Writing the story of their own life allows the author to parse their story into examinable segments while continuing to engage in… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“You do not need to be temperamental or upset to be a novelist. Don’t embrace the tortured artist rhetoric that any life… — Bryant A. Loney Copy Share Image
“A writing day is like any other day. Except I live in my pajamas, I forget to eat, and I suddenly look… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
I've always felt that my relationship to the United States is analogous to a marriage. I love this country. I hate it.… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“The best thing that can happen to me when I'm writing fiction is to lose sight of the fact that I'm writing… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“All writing is a message in a bottle, cast into the sea in the forlorn hope of recognition and acceptance.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“So what do you do when you are stuck? The first thing I do when I am stuck is pray. But I’m… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
“Writing places a person in the community of those imaginative spirits whom preceded their birth. Writing also connects a person with the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I mean, what can you say about how you write your books? What I mean is, first you've got to think of… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“There are times when I can't believe how much ridiculous stuff happens to me and how brilliant it is to be in… — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
“Very early on, near the beginning of my writing life, I came to believe that I had to seize on some object… — Zbigniew Herbert Copy Share Image
“Writing on dark themes is not as easy as one might think; you have to live the worst and the most terrifying… — Heena Rathore P Copy Share Image
“Writing a complete novel is time consuming, frustrating, nerve wrecking, and most of the time your work is under valued, under appreciated,… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
“As a writer, one spends a lifetime journeying into the heart of language, trying to minimize, if not eliminate, the distance between… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
