Book Quote by Timothy Morton

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.

— Paul McCartney

Tokyopop's been extraordinary. They approached me to do My Dead Girlfriend - Julie Taylor, one of the senior editors was a huge fan of…

— Eric Wight

“James Joyce married a woman named Nora Barnacle. She once said to him, ‘Why don’t you write books people can read?”

— John Lloyd

Love your material. Nothing frightens the inner critic more than the writer who loves her work. The writer who is enamored of her material…

— Allegra Goodman

When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre…

— Jim Butcher

Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I got into my usual obsessive writing frenzy, using all the material I'd worked on for so long and crafting it into a little…

— Helen Fielding

I write the book for one person — for Fiona [Staples, the artist]. I spend a lot of time just thinking how she'll react…

— Brian K. Vaughan

My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine…

— V. S. Naipaul

I always swore I would never write a book. But I read Clare Balding's and it was really interesting and so prettily written and…

— Jennifer Saunders

Long before I started to write in earnest, Lorrie Moore taught me you could have a woman narrator who was funny and complex and…

— Miranda July

I was obsessed with the scientific instruments people were building and all the weird experiments they were doing. I did actually wind up working…

— Danielle Dutton