Anthology Quote by James Wolcott

Nonfiction writers are the packhorses of literature. We're meant to carry the story. If we can make it up and down the mountain by…

— Stacy Schiff

I wrote a great deal of a novel, 'Winter's Tale,' on the roof of a Brooklyn Heights tenement on Henry Street. I was a…

— Mark Helprin

As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most American writing going back to James Fennimore…

— Tim Cahill

With this first novel, I am just above the foothills, but I see the path to the top, and it is my desire to…

— Guy Johnson

I have a little writer's cabin in the mountains.

— Robby Hoffman

“For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending…

— Sara Sheridan

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.

— Kate DiCamillo

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

“He had started out the way nearly all writers do, and I'd seen it a hundred times--amateurs transformed into gibbering wrecks by actually being…

— Colin Bateman

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

— Jeanne Calment

“I love telling stories for a living. The process of writing has its frustrations, but also its joys (there’s no high like typing “The…

— Marcus Sakey

A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat.

— Patricia T. O'Conner