Auras Quote by Brian Stableford

I'd chosen to dedicate my life to writing, and I asked myself, 'if you write your whole life, and nobody ever sees a word,…

— Nathan Englander

“Some of the best books published every year are penned by talented writers whose identity the public will never know.”

— Richard Castle

“No one has expressed it better than a great novelist I heard once on a talk show who said something like "You want to…

— Anne Lamott

No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either…

— William Zinsser

In my first 15 or 20 years of authorship, I was almost never asked to give a speech or an interview. The written work…

— John Updike

Well, unlike a lot of authors, I will be the one to cop to having a ghostwriter. I've always written with someone else.

— Wendy Williams

Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.

— William Zinsser

“How well I would write if I were not here! If between the white page and the writing of words and stories that take…

— Italo Calvino

I write all the time. Some of them are very personalized things. Some of them are sarcastic looks at life.

— Bill Ward

I'm really sort of cautious about being too didactic. To me there are writers that can do that, but I think they drown in…

— Adam Braver

“If you haven't the creative urge, or if it is fulfilled elsehow, then, although you may be a skilled craftsman, writing the most delightful…

— Christopher Milne

When you publish something, it is very much as if you pulled your pants down in public. If what you have written is good,…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay