Writing Quote by John Steinbeck

“Enjoy being bold, and if that is scary at first, marvel at your ability to walk through fear.”

— Rivka Solomon

“I'm more excited than I'll admit when my hand closes around the paperback. It's like I've been handed a secret, a piece of her…

— Amy Matayo

“That's what a writer is -- a conqueror of fears.”

— Erica Jong

“but you are very well aware that I belong to that remarkable class of authors who, when they are bearing anything about in their…

— Leslie S. Klinger

“be careful not to become narrow-minded, or afraid of reading what is well written, quite the contrary, such writings are a source of comfort…

— Vincent van Gogh

“I know no medium: I never in my life have known any medium in my dealings with positive, hard characters, antagonistic to my own,…

— Charlotte Brontë

“No fear is unbearable, she concluded, unless you've got time on your hands and a healthy imagination.”

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

“I gave up worrying about the principles of fiction writing when I realized that there weren't any.”

— Teri Louise Kelly

“the time coming when I can endure to read my own writing in print without blushing—shivering and wishing to take cover?”

— Virginia Woolf

“...Don't insult readers by questioning the extent of their imaginations. Most need only to be nudged to solve a good mystery.”

— Peggy Kopman-Owens

“Beware of being only a writer.”

— Miranda Paul

“Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.”

— James Van Pelt