Bolts Quote by Ray Bradbury

I didn't want to be apologetic about my love story, and I think to be willing to write about love you have to be…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Most of us have loved. And the terror for a writer is that readers will forgive you so much, but they won't forgive you…

— Richard Flanagan

“In the darkest corners of a writer’s heart, you’ll find the stories that never made it to the page, the ones too painful to…

— Dr. Nitin Chopra

In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.

— George Barr McCutcheon

Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me,…

— LaToya Jackson

I was never really interested in writing about big love stories or breakups. I was always exploring myself and my feelings and how people…

— Noah Kahan

How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking the writer?…

— Lev Grossman

It took me 10 years to write a story that pleased me - that I could look at after it was published and not cringe.

— Ben Fountain

I wrote 'I Should Hate You' about a short-lived relationship whose energy or time I didn't value and I used to feel shame around…

— Gracie Abrams

Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more textured writer.…

— Richard K. Morgan

As a writer, I must be free to say what is in all the diversity I can command. I regret the distorting prejudices that…

— Jane Rule

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.

— Alain de Botton