Author Quote by Robert A. Heinlein
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. -Robert A. Heinlein
Author Quote by Robert Graves
There?s no money in poetry, but then there?s no poetry in money either. -Robert Graves
Author Quote by Flannery O?Connor
Everywhere I go I?m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don?t stifle enough of them. -Flannery O?Connor
Author Quote by William Shakespeare (from A Midsummer Night?s Dream)
And as imagination bodies forth. The forms of things unknown, the poet?s pen. Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing. A local habitation and a name. -William Shakespeare (from A Midsummer Night?s Dream)
Author Quote by Truman Capote
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. -Truman Capote
Author Quote by A. A. Milne
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being. -A. A. Milne
Author Quote by Isaac Asimov
It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition. -Isaac Asimov
Author Quote by Anton Chekhov
My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying. -Anton Chekhov
Author Quote by Edgar Rice Burroughs
If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor. -Edgar Rice Burroughs
Author Quote by Willa Cather
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. -Willa Cather