Art Quote by Dorothy Parker

That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So…

— Terry Pratchett

I read a lot of graphic novels - some of my favorites graphic novelists or artists are Rebecca Kraatz, Gabrielle Bell, Graham Roumieu, Tom…

— Matthea Harvey

I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South…

— John Perry Barlow

I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just…

— John Sayles

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

— Billy Collins

“I wrote her story because she wanted to live forever and I loved her far more with every word, too much! Even in death…

— robert m drake

I remember where I was when I wrote that story, 'Mermaid in a Jar.' I was at a boyfriend's, and he was the only…

— Sheila Heti

I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a young voice,…

— Denis Johnson

When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.

— Julie Kagawa

I wrote 'The story of O' alone, for Dominique Aury, to interest him, to please him, to occupy him. I wasn't young, nor particularly…

— Anne Desclos

I wrote my first story in second grade, and was trying novel-length by sixth.

— Brian Hodge

I wrote a story about a character who looks like Harry Styles. But it has nothing to do with Harry Styles at all.

— Anna Todd

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as…

— Theodore Sturgeon

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I…

— Jami Attenberg

I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11

— Sara Paretsky