Writing Quote by Joanna Wylde

“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the…

— Don DeLillo

“All the heroes had crew cuts, platinum-blond wives and drove Corvettes. The media was devoted to this cult of innocence.”

— Rinker Buck

“Writing is what we do for a living; reviewing is what gangster bullies do for fun!”

— Anne Rice

I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a body found…

— Michael Connelly

“I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographical novel about Jack Kerouac,…

— Cory Doctorow

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes

“Your whole duty as a writer is to please and satisfy yourself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one. Start…

— E.B. White

“So Meyer Lansky was Hyman Roth? Was Marlon Brando Frank Costello? The confusion was compounded when quite serious newspapers started incorporating Godfather comparisons into…

— Robert Lacey

“These things matter. It’s tedious, I know. Any writer worth his weight in pulp would by now have set the hero along a definable…

— Gordon Highland

“Writers (my kind of writers: aspiring novelists, ruminative thinkers, people whose brains don't work quick enough to blog or link or tweet, basically old,…

— Gillian Flynn

“I earned a mater's degree in journalism and took the first job offered, as a sports writer. Instead of chasing my own fame, I…

— Mitch Albom

Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We…

— Naguib Mahfouz