Blossom Quote by Cao Yu

A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things.

— William Stafford

“Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to…

— Orhan Pamuk

“Any good, persistent, business-minded, prolific writer can succeed if they keep writing and moving forward. For the modern author, that’s excellent news.”

— Sean Platt

Once the initial excitement wears off and it's time to sit down to write, the authors are usually still very eager, but the reality…

— Deborah Reber

I don't get on with novelists, don't enjoy their company. Once you've worked for a publisher, you understand the species, see them in their…

— Neil Cross

A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.

— Wallace Stegner

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

— John Updike

“Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions.”

— F. Sionil José

People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.

— Anonymous

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

— Flannery O'Connor

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.

— Roger Ebert

“Those who would like to become writers attend courses on writing poetry and prose and analyze their own work and that of other writers…

— Dejan Stojanovic