Adequately Quote by James Gunn

I think that, in principle, a workshop is such a beautiful idea - an environment in which writers who are collectively apprenticed to the…

— Eleanor Catton

As an unpublished, nonprofessional writer working on my first novel, I nevertheless had access to extremely talented people who would help make my manuscript…

— Chris Pavone

Whatever one may say about the perils of workshops, they help writers internalize an awareness of audience.

— Debra Dean

At every writers' conference, you have the opportunity to hear from best-selling authors, top literary agents, and excellent editors who will demystify the publishing…

— Tomi Adeyemi

There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.

— Gillian Flynn

Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Daniil Kharms,…

— Helen Oyeyemi

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.

— Jeanne Calment

There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on things. That…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“Collaborative workshops and writers' peer groups hadn't been invented when I was young. They're a wonderful invention. They put the writer into a community…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

There are some incredibly gifted writers in the world. You can count them on a hand. They're blessed, and they've worked at their craft,…

— David Grann

It's always hard to write and get your words out there, to find an editor, a publisher - readers! - who are going to…

— Colson Whitehead

As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are…

— Piers Anthony