Able Quote by Hugh Leonard

'Life's That Way' was an extraordinarily difficult book to write, because it wasn't written as a book. It was written as a journal of…

— Jim Beaver

Strength wasn‘t about being able to do everything alone. Strength was knowing when to ask for help and not being too proud to do…

— Karen Marie Moning

“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate…

— Alan Wilson Watts

If you want to be a serious writer, then you have to write what there is to write about. If you're going to pull…

— Salman Rushdie

You write because you don't talk very well, and maybe one of the reasons that I was determined to write was that I wasn't…

— John Updike

I wasn't one of those kids that was like I'm going to be a country music singer or I'm going to be the next…

— William Clark Green

There were many books in my parents' home. I'm from a family of five children and we were all readers. And so by the…

— Jaume Cabre

I stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in university, but…

— James Lipton

I was a little bit perturbed by the whole big grief machine that grew out of 9/11. I knew that I wanted to write…

— Colum McCann

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my…

— Diane Setterfield

If you wish to be a writer, write.

— Epictetus

The writer will write in his or her words, but the readers, even when they are not reading you, will take it elsewhere entirely.

— Amitava Kumar