When you sell a man a book, you don’t sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life.

Christopher Morley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Morley

The way British publishing works is that you go from not being published no matter how good you are, to being published no matter how bad you are.

Tibor Fischer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibor_Fischer

Being a writer in Hollywood is like going into Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest with a great idea for a Bar Mitzvah.

David Mamet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mamet

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

William Saroyan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Saroyan

Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

Frederic Raphael

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Raphael

All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person.

Jean Rhys

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Rhys

Knock hard, life is deaf.

Mimi Parent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimi_Parent

Great minds discuss ideas.

Average minds discuss events.

Small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt (attributed to)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt

A good story should have incidents, which defy the probabilities and march just inside the borders of the possible.

John Buchan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Buchan

Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.

Barbara Kingsolver

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kingsolver