Books Quote by Robert Galbraith

“A writer is a dangerous friend. Everything you say, all of your life and experience, is fodder for our writing. We mean you no…

— Randy Murray

“To be a successful fiction writer you have to write well, write a lot … and let ‘em know you’ve written it! Then rinse…

— Gerard de Marigny

Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

— Rose Wilder Lane

“Every writer is first a member of a community of readers, and the deepest purpose of reading and writing fiction is to sustain a…

— Jonathan Franzen

Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances!

— Sheila Heti

Being a novelist, you can roam around with a story and indulge yourself.

— Gillian Flynn

“Good writing, on the other hand, teaches the learning writer about style, graceful narration, plot development, the creation of believable characters, and truth-telling. A…

— Stephen King

No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel already.

— Sylvia Brownrigg

Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our writing will…

— Andrew O'Hagan

It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.

— Julian Barnes

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted and slightly savage if…

— Jessamyn West