Books Quote by Anne Hillerman

If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he…

— Nicole Krauss

This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going…

— Mark Twain

I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to…

— Daniel H. Wilson

I frankly couldn't imagine being a series mystery-fiction writer, churning out book after book about the same viewpoint character.

— Robert J. Sawyer

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

— Flannery O'Connor

“A novelist must wrestle with all mysteries and strangeness of life itself, and anyone who dies not wish to accept that grand, bone-chilling commission…

— Pat Conroy

“There is only one motive for writing a novel: to be published and read. To me there is no distinction between the mystery novel…

— John Franklin Bardin

“Too many words for one book--truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.”

— David Benioff

“I read the novel I had been writing for several months with an odd sense that it was the work of a stranger. I…

— Chloe Thurlow

I've always thought Harper Lee might have made a great decision. Much as you'd like to have more books by her, there's something about…

— Charles Frazier

“And if publishers are too skittish to bite—sell it as goddamn fiction. Make yourself the author and change the names if necessary. Do whatever…

— Joshua V. Scher

I just so desperately wanted to be published in New Yorker, and I'd so desperately try to get something in it. But I'd always…

— Kevin Sessums