Country Quote by Gertrude Stein

Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others,…

— Rebecca Solnit

The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part…

— Irwin Shaw

The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.

— Vikas Swarup

As a writer, when you fall in love with a place, you want to spend more time in it, either physically or mentally, and…

— Don Winslow

One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes more real…

— Joanne Harris

Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of…

— Varley O'Connor

Writing is akin to method acting. Before the writer can render a fully convincing world, he or she must inhabit that world, and every…

— Richard North Patterson

All writers write about themselves, just as the old storytellers chose to tell stories that spoke to and about themselves. They call it the…

— Jane Yolen

While writing, writers are living inside a character or characters, and when the book ekes into the world, writers are living inside the reader.…

— Lauren Groff

As writers, we live very much in our own minds much of the time, buzzing in our unconscious spaces as we go about the…

— Laurie Foos

“Writing a story about a place calls that world into existence. Sometimes, as the author, you accompany it for a while. But even as…

— Alan McCluskey

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it. He must always be a stranger to the…

— William Morris