Be good Quote by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

Writers aren't like plumbers. If you're a plumber, you fix one person's boiler in the morning, then you go and fix another in the…

— Lucy Hughes-Hallett

“Kathleen Norris, on the publication of her 78th book. 'All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it…

— Kathleen Norris

Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.

— Thomas Harris

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

— Robert B. Parker

Everybody in Washington wants one of these jobs studies this book. It`s called the Plum Book because the people in Washington turn the pages…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel…

— Stephenie Meyer

Because all writers are human beings first and writers second, my guess is that any advice for living with a writer is about the…

— Clyde Edgerton

I personally feel I still have so much to learn as a writer; each novel is better than the one before, just because I'm…

— Jonathan Dee

When you write your first novel you don't really know what you're doing. There may be writers out there who are brilliant, incisive and…

— Robin McKinley

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

— Ernest Hemingway

I lived in Boston for three years, and during that time, I wrote my first collection of stories, 'What the World Will Look Like…

— Laura van den Berg

I always want to write something better than the last book.

— Tracy Kidder