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Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

E. L. Doctorow

I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.

Stephen Wright

You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won’t be able to take a break from being a writer.

Stephen Leigh

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Jim Morrison

Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk — away from any open flames — to remind yourself that if you don’t write daily, you will get rusty.

George Singleton

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

Edward Albee

I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

Roald Dahl

Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate and infinitely better looking.

Chris Claremont

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G.K. Chesterton

My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.

Ernest Hemingway

No writer has ever yet been known to hang himself as long as he had another chapter left.

Thomas Wolfe

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

Clarence Budington Kelland

The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.

Mickey Spillane

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

Joseph Conrad

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Truman Capote Quote

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.

Jodi Picoult

There are three primal urges in human beings: Food, sex, and rewriting someone else’s play.

Romulus Linney

Socially, a journalist fits in somewhere between a whore and a bartender. But spiritually he stands beside Galileo. He knows the world is round.

Sherman Reilly Duffy

A true author, no matter the medium, is an artist with godlike knowledge of his subject, and the proof of his authorship is that his pages smack of authority.