General Quote by Anna Todd

It's OK just to be a writer, who writes about the society in which he lives and the issues that most important. Now how…

— Arundhati Roy

I think the path to becoming a writer has become more through the novel. It's easier to get a novel published than a book…

— Jess Walter

Maybe I have a one-track mind, but the best writers and thinkers are focusing on nonfiction these days; this is the genre where a…

— Lee Gutkind

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

— Sloane Crosley

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

Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence.

— James Frey

We are living in an era of such interesting new forms, and certainly narrative non-fiction has emerged as a major form. People who are…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

Writing is mysterious, and it's supposed to be...any path that gets you there is a good path in the end. But one true thing…

— Andrea Barrett

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

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.

— Mohsin Hamid

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

— John Fowles

Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really…

— Anonymous