What about his style? asked Dalgliesh who was beginning to think that his reading had been unnecessarily restricted.Turgid but grammatical. And, in these days, when every illiterate debutante thinks s...
The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.
The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.
Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.
My favourite piece of information is that Branwell Brontë, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up leaning against a mantle piece, in order to prove it could be done.This is not quite true, i...
Most straight people, and many gay people, especially those who came of age more recently, don’t understand how momentous and difficult coming out was to men and women of this generation. It seems so...
Your manuscript is both good and original but the parts that are good are not original and the parts that are original are not good.
On the trail of another man the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn: any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within it.
How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention out of his experience should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.
This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back again.
I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the developme...
I keep six honest serving-men they taught me all I know their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who
There are more writers who read than readers who write.
I write because I know magic happens
People wrote me off but they did not realize that I was a writer.
You have a great advantage as a writer, Monsieur,' said Poirot. 'You can relieve your feelings by expedient of the printed word. You have the power of the pen over your enemies.
Writing is an art and a skill that can be developed
Writers Block? Get out and have fun. Love yourself. No use frowning and buying anti-wrinkle cream after.