Always Quote by John Connolly

“Good writers are like magpies, attracted to shiny things and storing away treasures - pieces of dialogue and experience - which pop up from…

— Jane Wilson-Howarth

Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

— Bergen Evans

Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

— Barbara Mertz

Writers are people who put pen to paper every day.

— Richard Russo

Writers are a fascinating breed, because there are so many kinds of them, they are made by so many circumstances, conditions, and mysteries, and…

— William Saroyan

A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things.

— William Stafford

A writer is someone who writes!

— Pat Schneider

Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One has for…

— Evelyn Waugh

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

— John Updike

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.

— Sara Sheridan

We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.

— Alice Walker

Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about…

— Gunter Grass