Bits and pieces Quote by Peter Prichard

Sinclair Lewis was asked one time to give a talk to class of students about writing. When he got there he asked the class,…

— Tom T. Hall

“I tell everyone who asks me about writing...almost everyone has an idea for a book, and some even have a great ending, but it's…

— Brooklyn Hudson

“I wanted to be a writer, so I became one. How? I wrote things down.”

— Ariel Gore

“Today is your wright-time. Anything worth writing will be, or has been written already. A great story chooses its writer lest no wright should…

— Amah Lambert

“Years ago I conducted a course in fiction writing at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, and we wanted such distinguished and busy…

— Dale Carnegie

“Nobody ever recommended or even desired that I be a novelist - in fact, some tried to stop me. I had the idea to…

— Haruki Murakami

“Lewis, anything but dull, suffered from an excess of misguided cleverness: he could disparage himself brilliantly in a matter of seconds. He knew literature,…

— Harry Mathews

I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me…

— Aldous Huxley

“I am a writer and I want to write.”

— Jane Bowles

“I wanted to see the world, to work in all professions , to meet new people, to be whatever I ever imagined, to tell…

— Anonymous

“For many writers the goal is a 1,000 words a day. For me - just give me one thought, and the words will take…

— Garry Fitchett

“I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.”

— Paul Auster