Agents Quote by Etgar Keret

If someone told me I had to stop writing stories, that would be the end of me.

— David Grann

When I write, I tend to be quite cut off from the world. At that point of time, I'm not thinking about editors, publishers…

— Amish Tripathi

I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to…

— Ruth Rendell

I hadn't meant to do the pattern of publishing short stories and then a novel. I thought, 'I'm a novelist. I know it.' But…

— Andrew Sean Greer

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

Being a writer, writing for a living, is one long persistence game. Everyone wants you to quit. Quite often, you want to quit. You…

— Kameron Hurley

“If you don’t put 99 percent of yourself into the writing, there will be no publishing career. There’s the writer and there’s the author.…

— Andre Dubus III

Why do I like to write short stories? Well, I certainly didn't intend to. I was going to write a novel. And still! I…

— Alice Munro

I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that…

— Don DeLillo

Learn a lot about the world and finish things, even if it is just a short story. Finish it before you start something else.…

— Tad Williams