Beauty Quote by Pat Conroy

I think my writing has an old-fashioned feel to it for whatever reason. I'm just so influenced by the music that I listened to…

— Michael Giacchino

The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers…

— Salman Rushdie

I was born in the era of the novel. I've written many, as well as collections of poetry, and essays for mouthing off. I've…

— Julianna Baggott

When I'm feeling frustrated with a story, I have faith that it's going to come. Also, when I first started writing, I wanted to…

— Jacqueline Woodson

People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing…

— Pat Benatar

I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I write.

— Jennifer Egan

I have been the creative literary mind of the century.

— Gertrude Stein

Literary generations come and go, and each generation passeth away and is heard of no more. In the end, simply the making itself -…

— Michael Dirda

I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age, struggling on…

— Toni Morrison

When I was young, my knowledge of the literary world was a distorted tabloid sketch of dazzling fame, suffering genius, and tragic glamour. It…

— Robin Beth Schaer

As a novelist, I feel lucky that I can traffic in nuance. I'm more interested in looking at how things change over time, at…

— Meg Wolitzer

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what…

— Nina Bawden