Able Quote by John Steinbeck

If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to…

— John Steinbeck

Knowing that a story needs to be told is a great motivator, even if telling a given story comes at a price. Writing Hunger…

— Roxane Gay

The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it…

— Paul Theroux

People imagine that there are rituals, like lighting candles or sacrificing chickens. They really just want to know what the magic formula is for…

— John Scalzi

Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own self be…

— Ashwin Sanghi

If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people -…

— Orhan Pamuk

Writing's a lot like cooking. Sometimes the cake won't rise, no matter what you do, and every now and again the cake tastes better…

— Neil Gaiman

I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various

— Irwin Shaw

“We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive. All we…

— Madeleine L'Engle

The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about…

— Judy Blume

I think it's important to remember that writing is a gift and our stories are gifts to ourselves and to the world and sometimes…

— Jacqueline Woodson

The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that.…

— Vikram Seth