Books Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

“It's this way, see--when a writer first starts out, he gets a big kick from the stuff he does, and the reader doesn't get…

— Ernest Hemingway

“I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he…

— Anthony Trollope

“A writer may not know the way at first; but if he endeavors to complete his task, he carves a path with his story,…

— Susan J. McIntire

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

— Ray Bradbury

“Every individual is an author in himself. It is only that he falls short of words to express; list of stories.”

— Aniruddha Sastikar

“A story is not finished, until it has taken the worst turn”

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

“I've discovered that sometimes writing badly can eventually lead to something better. Not writing at all leads to nothing.”

— Anna Quindlen

“A writer is bound to have varying degrees of success, and I think that that is partly an issue of how central the burden…

— John Hersey

The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form.

— Edith Wharton

“Many people think that the idea is the difficult part of writing a story, and this can be true. But there is another challenge…

— William Herring

“This time it was the sentence opening the last part of a story I had worked on for months: a sentence as is often…

— Louis Zukofsky

“There is nothing quite like the expectancy of the beginning writer, unless it is the conceit of the successful one.”

— Charles Bukowski