Always Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

Seriously, I am a terrible plotter when it comes to my novels. Terrible. I love to kind of feel my way into a book.

— Rebecca Serle

Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.

— Orson Scott Card

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

— Salman Rushdie

When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws.

— Jacqueline Woodson

Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

— Malcolm Cowley

I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.

— Haruki Murakami

The novel is just fine: It's novelists who aren't doing so well.

— Russell Smith

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

— Philip Larkin

people do terrible things, sometimes, for the best reasons.

— Lauren Oliver

I don't believe novels should carry an obvious message. I don't want to write characters you can immediately say are good or bad; as…

— Christopher Koch

A book's flaws make it less predictable.

— Janet Fitch

Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying.

— Flannery O'Connor