When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
The best romance writers know there's nothing that builds conflict or makes a gentleman of a rogue more quickly than responsibility.
There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.
I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.
I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.
I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.
Every writer secretly hopes that what he or she has written will endure.
Like a warrior in the battlefield, a writer must endeavour to use his pen to stamp the paper with his identity.
Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.
Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.
When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.
But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.
You cannot be a great writer in a shop where words are sold in tens and twenties.
My favorite writers have been those who've said things well.
The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.
Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most.
