Bear Quote by Pat Conroy

I try to gauge whether a girl likes me before I make a move. I would write a page-long note to a girl.If she…

— Devon Werkheiser

“I sat at the bottom of the garden, and I wrote the last page of my book, and I knew that I had written…

— Neil Gaiman

I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a…

— Henning Mankell

I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see if I…

— Carl Reiner

If you wrote a page a day, at the end of the year you would have a book. Whether it's any good or not…

— Jackie Collins

I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved…

— David Nicholls

I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest,…

— Pat Conroy

I was in Las Vegas, and there was a exhibit of King Tut's tomb, and it was an audio tour. At the very end…

— Jay Asher

Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.

— Meg Cabot

“A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.”

— George Saunders

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get…

— Jay McInerney

Throughout my career I've struggled to encourage people to read my books on a more metaphorical level. I'm less attached to my settings than,…

— Kazuo Ishiguro