About Quote by Francine Rivers

I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good.

— Cathy Marie Buchanan

I loved writing something people usually have - miscommunication, for example. Now that I've written a romance, I'm sure I'll write more: it's fascinating…

— Theodora Goss

I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was…

— Sara Zarr

I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books -…

— Anatoly Rybakov

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.

— Kathy Reichs

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

— Jon Krakauer

Whatever I was writing at the time, I knew there was no market for it and never would be, because there’s never a market…

— Nell Zink

I always wrote as a vehicle for expression but did not try writing for publication until my mid-thirties, at which time I started writing…

— Elizabeth Berg

The best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense…

— Anthony Minghella

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day,…

— Daniel Pinkwater

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

— Nora Roberts

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

— Lincoln Child