933 Quotes About Authors

Story-telling is a lot like making love. There are rules, yet there are no rules. You must keep your lover engaged; keep pressing the right buttons. Make the reader look forward to your next move with bated breath. Build up the tension and let it explode in the climax. (Anurag Shourie)

Stare at the blank screen for at least an hour until it bleeds. It will bleed.

Tell a story in fewer and simpler words.

You'll never know if you've created or will create that one story worth a million dollars. Keep writing!

Every book begins and ends with other people- the readers who suggest the book to us and encourage us to read it, the talented author who crafted each word, the fascinating individuals we meet inside the pages- and the readers we discuss and share the book with when we finish.

Clichés are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases.

I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around on skateboards. But the actual writers I know are experts in neurotic self-torture. Every page of writing is the result of a thousand tiny decisions and desperate acts of will.

Be a good reader first if you wish to become a good writer.

The difference between a writer and an author: Writers call each other writers. Readers call writers authors.