About Quote by Paul Di Filippo

“Too many writers are trying to write with too shallow an education. Whether they go to college or not is immaterial...a good writer needs…

— James Kisner

All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.

— Lloyd Alexander

As writers, we're always trying to connect with the audience on a visceral level. We usually do that through drama, through emotion or through…

— Rockne S. O'Bannon

As an English major I was familiar with the stories of dozens of writers trying to get their work done among the multifarious diversions…

— Jim Harrison

Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I…

— Nancy Meyers

Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel. . . not simply working from the given, but toward the given, saying…

— Robert Penn Warren

I feel like people who criticize authors for being self-promotional fail to recognize that a lot of times their ability to continue writing hinges…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I think that most writers who are trying to write important and difficult books are in many ways putting their own humanity into question.…

— Chris Abani

“You'd think that the ability to write lucid prose would be the bottom line for any publishing novelist, but it is not so... You…

— Stephen King

“In his eyes, those dazzling near-black eyes, more important to me than our love or lust or friendship, was a look of pure trust.”

— Anonymous

“...ending a book with a sequel in such a way that the reader still has faith in the characters and in the writer. That's…

— Shandy L. Kurth

The challenge in scoring a sequel is, how do you not get bored? The only way around that one is to go, "Okay, let's…

— Hans Zimmer