I can Quote by Judy Blume

I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.

— Mickey Spillane

She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again.

— Sarah Dessen

“Margaret grasped on to the magic of novels because they held out hope that Mary—and she herself—might yet have a chance at marriage. While…

— Tracy Chevalier

So it was this multi-perspective, multi-character book, and it went through all of these different manifestations. I'm not sure there was a single moment…

— Danielle Dutton

"Margaret" was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.

— Judy Blume

Back then, when I had that original idea to write about the seventeenth century, the whole thing was set in 1666. I was thinking…

— Danielle Dutton

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

— Wole Soyinka

I am one of those authors who believes (perhaps foolishly) that she is in complete control of the story.

— Megan Chance

She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric.

— Michael Cunningham

...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage…

— Alan Bennett