Julia Quinn Quotes

The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.

I don't think that writing talent has much to do with where one went to school, or the number of degrees on one's business card, but I do get a bit bristly at the implication that romance authors couldn't possibly be smart enough to get into an Ivy League school.

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

When a group of ultra-opinionated, uber-creative romance authors get together, I'm sure you guys can imagine how fast the ideas start flying!

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

I never dreamt I could be an author when I grew up. It just didn't occur to me, because I thought you had to be a) academic, so go to university, things like that, and I didn't think I was clever, or b) dead because I just assumed all the authors in the library were dead.

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

When you write a book, you're an expert, and people look at you in a different way.

My father, Leo Henry Brown, really was talented - he could write. He had a gift, and he had a great, sly humor.

Celeste Ng is such a gifted writer.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with it.

I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of being able to turn words into stories. It was a miracle.

Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily.

Sean's a great, great writer.

When I was in my early 20s and still at uni, I won a short-story competition: £200 was the prize.

Writers are nerds.

I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.

I'm clearly not a writer, but I'm always a fan of them.

In the early '70s - a very good time for children's books and their authors - editors and publishers were willing to take a chance on a new writer. They were willing and able to invest their time in nurturing writers with promise, encouraging them.

Carmiel Banasky, a writer like no other, is a talent to watch.

I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.

Every now and then, a writer emerges who just gets better and better. These are the really exciting ones to encounter. Their novels carry the promise of so much more to come. Warwick Collins is one such writer.

I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird authors.

There are so many stories to be told, by so many good writers.