Believer Quote by David Lubar

The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you…

— Vikram Seth

“An aspiring writer should write one time and edit ten times.”

— Amit Kalantri

It's more important to get the right writer and the right take than it is to do something in a particular timeframe.

— Gale Anne Hurd

This is, if not a lifetime process, it's awfully close to it. The writer broadens, becomes deeper, becomes more observant, becomes more tempered, becomes…

— Rod Serling

My trouble is I'm the sort of writer who only finds out what he's getting at by the time he's got to the end…

— Christopher Fry

When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best.

— Edward Abbey

With writing, timing is everything. Being in the right place at the right time.

— John Ridley

When a reader finishes a wonderful story and lays it aside, he should have to pause for a minute and collect himself.

— Raymond Carver

When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint - understand what he is trying to do - nine times out of ten he is trying…

— Harry S. Truman

“In truly good writing no matter how many times you read it you do not know how it is done. That is beacause there…

— Ernest Hemingway

The job of the writer is to look at where he is now and make some sort of emotional sense of it, not only…

— Colum McCann

The best part of writing is thinking about the story. And then everything else takes a lot of discipline.

— Kareem Mortimer