Books Quote by Christopher Bollen

Good writing is often about trying to investigate something you feel is missing and trying to put it back.

— Abi Morgan

Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

— Barbara Mertz

The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story…

— Nick Earls

Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually…

— Craig Johnson

You don't write a book. You write a sentence and then a paragraph and then a page and then a chapter. Looking at writing…

— Rebecca Serle

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

“Anyone and everyone taking a writing class knows that the secret of good writing is to cut it back, pare it down, winnow, chop,…

— Nick Hornby

My only obligation as a fiction writer is to the story, to make it good, so good the busy reader doesn't feel that flipping…

— Leslie Pietrzyk

The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no…

— Ezra Pound

All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?

— Steven Saylor

Writing isn't just on the page; it's voices in the reader's head. Read what you write out loud to someone-anyone-and you will catch all…

— Donna Jo Napoli

During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became the first few pages…

— Patricia Briggs