Books Quote by Mina P. Shaughnessy

“There is a problem with writers. If what a writer wrote was published and sold many, many copies, the writer thought he was great.…

— Charles Bukowski

“There is a problem with writers. If what a writer wrote was published and sold many, many copies, the writer thought he was great.…

— Anonymous

I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I'd always wanted to be a writer, but…

— Ben Richards

My Girl Scout leader. She told me if I listened more and talked less, I could grow up to be a good writer. I…

— Judith Viorst

A next-generation innovation writer and thought leader worth watching.

— Scott D. Anthony

I don't think there was a time I ever thought of myself as anything but a writer. I thought I was going to be…

— Shonda Rhimes

When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a serious writer. I was…

— Anthony Burgess

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

— Karin Slaughter

We should read other people's books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if…

— Alain de Botton

“When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might be thought…

— Walker Percy

“He was already beginning to understand that what was wrong with his writing was that there was something wrong, something misconceived, about him. If…

— Salman Rushdie