I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.
Nora Roberts

I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them.
Nora Roberts

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.
Nora Roberts

A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.
Gustave Flaubert

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.
Augusten Burroughs

I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.
Augusten Burroughs

I never listen to music when I write.
Augusten Burroughs

With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it.
Augusten Burroughs

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.
Augusten Burroughs

My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.
Augusten Burroughs

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
Robert Green Ingersoll

When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.
Daniel Goleman

There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.
Alec Baldwin

Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.
Jackie Collins

I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.
Jackie Collins

I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
Jackie Collins

I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
Jackie Collins

I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.
Jackie Collins

Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
Jackie Collins

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
Jackie Collins