Beef Quote by Nicholson Baker

The truth about being a writer is you do not choose the stories you tell, but stories choose you. You do not choose, therefore,…

— Rosa Montero

Novel writing, to me, is all about language: choosing your words, finding the characters within the words and just really agonizing over every word.…

— Jonathan Tropper

To write fiction is to think that you're doing it wrong - that your work habits are inhibiting you; that you've chosen the wrong…

— Ben Dolnick

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say…

— Andrew Greeley

Writing a novel isn't like building a brick wall. You don't figure out how to do it, and then it gets easier each time…

— Kate DiCamillo

Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys…

— Erica Jong

The great thing about writing is that you always put yourself in the shoes of the character. If you're doing it right, you can…

— Peter Gould

Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For me, a…

— Reif Larsen

I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful…

— Edmund White

The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that.…

— Vikram Seth

I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing…

— PJ Harvey