Books Quote by Alice Mattison

Writing isn't generally a lucrative source of income; only a few, exceptional writers reach the income levels associated with the best-sellers. Rather, most of…

— Melissa Scott

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

— John Fowles

“But for the rest of us, we should be regularly reassessing why we write. When we know what we’re going for (human impact? fame?…

— Tasha Golden

To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story…

— Langston Hughes

One of the biggest drawbacks of our industry is that we haven't nurtured our writers for years. Now, we realise we need to but…

— Kabir Khan

When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing and we have less and…

— Julia Cameron

In general, I feel, or I have come to feel, that the richest writing comes not from the people who dedicate themselves to writing…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A writer can't afford to just focus on writing and leave marketing aside in today's competitive market.

— Amish Tripathi

We're all in this together - when one writer succeeds, all writers succeed. I love discovering new authors. I think we need to take…

— Lisa Gardner

Writers are a product of where we come from but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we can find…

— Sara Sheridan

So, you know, I think any life has in it enough material, enough points of departure, to fuel a writer's career and that we…

— John Updike

It's very difficult, I think for most writers, to carve out the time and the kind of imaginative space to do the writing that…

— Emily Barton