Lexi Underwood Quotes

Novelist and poet David Huddle is a quiet but fabulous writer, and he does adolescent longing better than anyone I know.

All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.

Many, many people can write books. I just happen to be one of them.

Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth reading. Your true essayist is, in a literary sense, the friend of everybody.

Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer.

I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write.

I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate.

I'm very confident that Nick Hornby always gets it right as a writer. He has the vernacular and passion. He is adroit and dry, and balances humor with the humanity of life.

Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.

Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer.

Humans are very complex; I definitely have a new respect for authors that are able to write books nonstop. It's an incredible talent.

All this is rather pretentious and fey to even talk about, but Flannery O'Connor sat down to write stories. The rest of us, some of us, don't have that kind of wit and genius. We don't do that. We sit down and have some accidents.

James Salter has talents on the page we novelists would sell souls to the devil for.

It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one.

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

I had been writing poems and stories since I learned to make letters. I had placed poems in a hardcover anthology at the age of 6. And I knew more big words than anyone else in the 10th grade.

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

Having a facility for language is an important part of being an author.

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

The general public doesn't expect romance authors to be Harvard graduates. Which is funny, because there are actually quite a lot of us. But this disconnect means that journalists see me as an interesting story. The tricky part is making sure they understand that there are many, many talented writers who don't have 'fancy' educations.

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.

Sean's a great, great writer.