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Quote of the Day: Julian Fellowes

Every writer has to make an emotional journey from artist sitting in attic to being part of a business. The writer of a film is like Tinkerbell. You are only there because people believe in you. The...

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Quote of the Day: W Somerset Maugham

There is no need for the writer to eat a whole sheep to be able to tell you what mutton tastes like.  It is enough if he eats a cutlet.  But he should do that.

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Quote of the Day: Horace

You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform.

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Quote of the Day: WH Auden

No poet or novelist wishes he was the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.

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Quote of the Day: Mark Twain

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

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Quote of the Day: C.N. Bovee

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world — they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

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Quote of the Day: James Russell Lowell

Nature fits all her children with something to do, / He who would write and can’t write, can surely review.

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Quote of the Day: David Brin

If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

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Quote of the Day: Robert A. Heinlein

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

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Quote of the Day: Jules Renard

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

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Quote of the Day: Thomas Mann

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

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Quote of the Day: Virginia Woolf

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.

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Quote of the Day: Natalie Goldberg

Writers live twice.

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Quote of the Day: Joan Didion

Writers are only rarely likable. 

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Quote of the Day: Anne Rice

Writers write about what obsesses them.

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Quote of the Day: Irvin S. Cobb

If writers were good businessmen, they’d have too much sense to be writers. 

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Quote of the Day: Alan Zweibel

Writers are lucky. Whatever the mood, no matter the longing, the writer can use his words to connect himself to any world he wishes to visit. 

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Quote of the Day: Dean Koontz

If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that’s more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.

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Quote of the Day: Carson McCullers

The writer is by nature a dreamer– a conscious dreamer. 

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Quote of the Day: John Updike

We’re past the age of heroes and hero kings. … Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it’s up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.

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