I certainly love writing books. I’ve always loved writing short stories and novels because in prose, you get all the control. - Maria Headley

Lesser artists borrow; great artists steal. - Igor Stravinsky

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. - George Orwell

In many cases, when a reader puts a story aside because “it got boring”, the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description, and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling. - Stephen King

I love books way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. - Karen Marie Moning

Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are. - Jo Deurbrouck

It's like in the great stories Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened. But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something. That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for. - The Lord of the Rings

Bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do― to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street. - Stephen King

The good end happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. - Oscar Wilde

Nothing worthwhile is ever easy. - Nicholas Sparks

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions. - Agatha Christie

The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end. - Lee Child

May the odds be ever in your favor. - Suzanne Collins

"God created dinosaurs. God destroyed dinosaurs. God created Man. Man destroyed God. Man created dinosaurs.""Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth.” - Michael Crichton

This is going to take a while. I’m a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity. - Brandon Sanderson

Why do you always write these strong women characters? Because you’re still asking me that question. - Joss Whedon

“The three natures of man. Good, evil, and the man struggling between!... The capacity for good and evil is within every person from birth, I think.” - Ted Dekker

"For any villains we may meet, we haven't any fears;Paramount will protect us, 'cause we're signed for five more years." - Road to Morocco

"Coincidences to get characters into trouble are great; coincidences to get them out of it are cheating." - Emma Coats

"The MacGuffin is the thing that the spies are after but the audience don't care.” - Alfred Hitchcock