Dies Quote by Don DeLillo

“Find tricks to keep yourself going,” William Least Heat Moon once advised a group of aspiring writers. “Anything you can do to trick yourself…

— Ralph Keyes

I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.

— Kiran Desai

Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll write a…

— Amelie Nothomb

While writing, writers are living inside a character or characters, and when the book ekes into the world, writers are living inside the reader.…

— Lauren Groff

The ability to be present with every single person and engage was a great model for me of the work that a writer needs…

— Sandra Cisneros

You become a serious novelist by living long enough.

— Don DeLillo

Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.

— Neil Gaiman

I think my interviews were much better than what some of the writers wrote. I just wanted the truth out.

— Chuck Berry

I place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers through hard…

— Cate Marvin

Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there'll always be better writers than you and there'll always be smarter writers than…

— Neil Gaiman

I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.

— Emma Walton Hamilton

“How come you write the way you do?” an apprentice writer in my Johns Hopkins workshop once disingenuously asked Donald Barthelme, who was visiting.…

— John Barth