Findings Quote by Mark Schaefer

Generally my favorite remarks always come from my readers. I've had people say my books made them laugh, or cry, or that it frightened…

— Patrick Rothfuss

As you'll know yourself, there are these moments when you're writing a book when one remark or moment will pull everything together and you'll…

— Maggie O'Farrell

When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me.

— Ruth Ozeki

“Good literature boils down to two things: How interesting is the story you are telling, and how interesting is your telling.”

— Hillel F. Damron

The element of surprise is the most important thing and what keeps me interested in writing. I can feel it if I've written that…

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Most of my writing is an effort, one way or another, to figure something out about myself, and often when I read dialogue between…

— Ron Currie Jr

Your literary style reflects your personality.

— Louis Auchincloss

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Keep it simple, make it general, and make it intelligible.

— Douglas McIlroy

If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.

— Stendhal

I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to…

— Teju Cole

“Stop to read good writers who are witty and are fun, 'cause that's the kind of fuel on which your Train of Thought will…

— Mister Lemur