Bribe Quote by Mark Twain

“He, the true writer, is the department store dummy at the very center of the whole establishment, the one left alone on display all…

— Allan Gurganus

“An editor is someone who is paid to tell a writer what she thinks about how he wrote what he thinks about.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a…

— Sara Sheridan

“He's changed out of his school clothes and is wearing a pair of khakis and a plaid dress shirt unbuttoned over a white tee.…

— Michelle Krys

“that England is under the rule of a patriarchy. Nobody in their senses could fail to detect the dominance of the professor. His was…

— Virginia Woolf

“Editors are the literary surgeons of the world.”

— Suzanne Steele

“An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a…

— Henry Fielding

“As a young man he seemed to pine for a bygone world of aristocrats. [In his twenties, he] took to wearing Edwardian three-piece suits…

— Benjamin Wallace

The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well.

— Will Self

“He, on the other hand, had the look of royalty, from his angular face and regal posture down to the modern yet tailored fit…

— Leia Shaw

“bright blue slacks and sandals, a paparazzi-sized”

— Peter James

“Peter eyes his swanky and incredibly dated jacket and fluffs the frills on his sleeves. Outside the window stands a guy in a tattered…

— Diane Rinella