Okay Quote by John Irving

“...she said all writers were prima donnas, drunks, social misfits, pompous, or depressed. Brilliant, maybe, but completely crazy.”

— Ilsa J. Bick

“No, it’s okay,” I said. “Let’s just go”

— R.J. Palacio

“It's been said of writers that if we don't have to write, we ought not to.”

— ChiLibris

Somebody said that writers are like otters... Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time they'll do…

— Neil Gaiman

“Larry McMurtry said that writers form their mental landscape in young adulthood. I spent my youth shuttling between a Texas father and an Oklahoma…

— Linda S. Bingham

Don't be scared of 'said.' Writers sometimes go looking for alternatives because they worry that 'he said' and 'she said' will feel repetitive if…

— Tana French

I was joking earlier when I said that all writers are manic depressives, but it's a joke with a lot of truth behind it.…

— T.C. Boyle

“I often said that writers are of two types. There is the architect, which is one type. The architect, as if designing a building,…

— George R.R. Martin

It's often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they're going.

— Christopher Bram

“Ben chuffed and continued to stare into the mirror. It was crazy, treating himself this way just to finish a book. The agent had…

— David Jacob Knight

Steve Mosby has become one of a handful of writers who make me excited about crime fiction.

— Val McDermid

“Writers use narratives to select from everything there is, and make contexts by putting the pieces into relation; that’s what writers do, they make…

— Paul Shepheard