Crosses Quote by Tom Stoppard

“If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a…

— Baby Halder

When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

If I'm asking people to give me two hours of their time, it's because I really feel like they need to listen to what…

— Elizabeth Marvel

“Always remember that writing is an alliance between author and reader. With every line we put down on the page, we need to leave…

— Hal Zina Bennett

“If you give a writer a line, they'll take a paragraph…”

— Suzanne McKenna Link

“A person is a novel: you don't know how it will end until the very last page. Otherwise, it wouldn't be worth reading to…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.

— William Golding

“Concentrate on the text for the moment: the other parts will fall into place in time.”

— Matthew Johnson

“Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“You are quick to catch the author's intentions and nothing escapes you”

— Italo Calvino

“Sometimes you can write about a character's day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just to write about a minute.”

— Jennifer v Clancy

As a writer, you have a huge ego. You think that every line means something to everybody the same way it means to you.…

— Pusha T