Important Quote by Frederick Busch

When you're a mass-market writer, people think that you can just decide 'this happens, this happens, this happens', whereas with literary writers it's coming…

— Marian Keyes

This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers…

— Terry Brooks

Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book, and go…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“...the job of the spiritual memoirist is to read the world like a book. Medieval monks believed the natural world was a scriptural text,…

— Elizabeth J. Andrew

I'll bet you $10 right now that there are an awful lot of literary writers who started a long time ago and now they…

— Robert Crais

All my big heroes are literary, writers.

— Henry Rollins

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.

— Jodi Picoult

I wanted to pay homage to someone who was such an important literary figure in my life. I think Langston Hughes would be proud…

— Kasi Lemmons

The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.

— Umberto Eco

“This is an embarrassing hole. History is the most important of the literary subarts.”

— Brandon Sanderson

The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way,…

— Jose Saramago

'Parable of the Sower' is capital-I Important. Put it on the literary fiction shelf. Put it on the Holy Crap fiction shelf. Put it…

— Robin Sloan