Career Quote by Leonard Bishop

It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.

— Zoë Heller

Writers who do great work must be coddled and encouraged.

— Ben Domenech

Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading.

— Marie Arana

I think thats the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.

— Maria Semple

There is something to be said when you have great writers, and they write, and they write.

— Jamie Hector

The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.

— Lauren Groff

I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.

— Maria Semple

All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood of the…

— Virginia Woolf

A great writer created a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them…

— Cyril Connolly

“One great pleasure of being a writer is possessing the power to determine the fate of my characters and how the story will end.”

— Terry a O'Neal

“The writer’s special talent is to empathize with people and imagine their lives. We know them as we write them.”

— Kay Kenyon

Writers interest me for their style, their obsessions, the ways in which they approach the world.

— Amitava Kumar