Books Quote by Stephen McCauley

I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.

— Mickey Spillane

You become writer by writing. It is a yoga.

— R.K. Narayan

This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never…

— Catherine Deneuve

“Novel-writing is not so much a profession as a yoga, or "way," an alternative to ordinary life-in-the-world. Its benefits are quasi-religious—a changed quality of…

— Marcy Sheiner

I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.

— Karin Slaughter

Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in making books. We'd been working with Bob Cobbing, the sound poet, since the beginning…

— David Toop

Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat.

— Patricia T. O'Conner

There is a quiet place in Hawaii where, for over thirty years, I've gone to draw inspiration and write many of my books.

— Robert H. Schuller

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

It's always hard to write and get your words out there, to find an editor, a publisher - readers! - who are going to…

— Colson Whitehead

Choose an author as you would a friend.

— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon