Beauty Quote by Nancy Holmes

“I have much appreciation for my agent, Gordon Warnock of Fuse Literary Agency, for taking the time to listen, for his encouragement, and for…

— Kerry Lonsdale

“Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

“You're writing, you're coasting, and you're thinking, 'This is the best thing I've ever written, and it's coming so easily, and these characters are…

— Jacqueline Woodson

“Love, I wrote the book on it. Unfortunately, nobody would publish it, so I felt compelled to burn my manuscript.”

— Jarod Kintz

“I never write the storyline ahead of the novel and stick to it like glue. I prefer my writing to be organic. It takes…

— Airambooksie

“If I can make a difference to some readers and help them to escape from some pains of unforgiveness and emotional misery by thumbing…

— Roger Macdonald Andrew

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lives loss…

— Tahereh Mafi

“I’m glad you are feeling more deeply drawn into your book; as for your not being sure now what it is about, does anyone…

— Truman Capote

“It's like all of the thoughts and feelings that i had scribbled down were lost along with the journals that held them. But i…

— Kyung-sook Shin

“I wrote that book anyhow, because I needed to write it for my own intimate purposes - and also because I was curious to…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“I spend my life folded between pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived loss…

— Tahereh Mafi

“[I]n the long run it's worthwhile to see the manuscript as a text capable of improvement.”

— Barbara Sjoholm