Writing Quote by Elizabeth Berg

There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work…

— Margaret Atwood

“...she said all writers were prima donnas, drunks, social misfits, pompous, or depressed. Brilliant, maybe, but completely crazy.”

— Ilsa J. Bick

“I think she was in a book club for a while, but she quit when they stopped talking about the books and started talking…

— Kathryn Davis

“There’s nothing I need or want to know from the writers I admire that isn’t in their books. It’s better to read a good…

— John Irving

“People don't know they want to become an author until they meet me.”

— Lucas J. Robak

“She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she…

— Sarah Beth Durst

“You know you're a writer when you wish you could meet your characters and hang out with them.”

— Kerry Frith

“I was secretly entranced with the idea of a lady novelist. I should dearly love to be one. Or maybe a goblin-fighting-pirate-queen. It was…

— Alyxandra Harvey

To want to meet an author because you like his books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you like pate…

— Arthur Koestler

“Susan hated Literature. She’d much prefer to read a good book.”

— Terry Pratchett

“I am tired, so very tired of thinking about Lacey Yeager, yet I worry that unless I write her story down, and see it…

— Steve Martin

“Betsy liked to read her stories aloud and she read them like an actress. She made her voice low and thrillingly deep. She made…

— Maud Hart Lovelace