Careful Quote by Marya Hornbacher

Writing fiction is a resolutely solitary pastime, and I love being with people, so the public side of being an author is, to me,…

— Julia Glass

The thing I always tell my writing students - I'm not a full-time instructor, by any means, but periodically I've taught writing students -…

— Erik Larson

“People often ask me what advice I have for writers, and I reply that the most important responsibility I believe a writer has is…

— Clive Barker

I'm not writing anything out of some sense of obligation, or for marketing purposes. This is just what I prefer to write. Even though…

— Hope Larson

I think many people have wonderful stories inside them and the talent to tell those stories. But the writing life, with its isolation and…

— Ellen Ullman

“Writing is about allowing yourself to become a vessel of creativity. Writers are avatars of creation. We have tender hearts, and strong emotions. It's…

— Sai Marie Johnson

It's something that I know how to do because I taught for a very long time, so I can do it, and I feel…

— Alice Sebold

Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The…

— Ashwin Sanghi

It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's…

— Jonah Peretti

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is…

— E. L. Doctorow

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

— Katherine Paterson

I feel like I always learn when I'm writing, even when I'm not writing about myself. I'm careful not to judge; I try to…

— Sarah Gerard