Books Quote by Himmilicious

“Grub Street could be a graveyard for ambition, a pit of quicksand that swallowed authors whole, pulling names and the works attached to them…

— Hallie Rubenhold

Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enough…

— Wallace Stegner

“To become better writers we must become the best thieves and liars in the business. We slink around the pages of everyone else’s work…

— Chris Stocking

“Hacks are killing our national literary culture. America treats best-sellers like literary lions and literary lions worse than stray dogs.”

— David B. Lentz

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”

— Steven Spielberg

“I had worked for a newspaper of sorts, word got around, and I became editor of our local school newspaper, The Drum. I don't…

— Stephen King

“Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate of all…

— Joseph Conrad

“I did worry at one stage that all my stories seem to revolve around secrets, lies and self-deception, but then I realized that most…

— Jane Lovering

“But what I sincerely hope is that my life serves as a cautionary tale to the rich and poor alike; to anyone who’s living…

— Jordan Belfort

“Scoffin' a load of our grub an' not tellin' a story? I say, what a bally swizz!”

— Brian Jacques

Writers are nothing but beggars with a good line.

— Charles Bukowski

Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages.

— Alexis De Veaux