There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it. — Ciaran Carson Copy Share Image
Anyone who goes into writing has to find out somewhere along the line, he's either naive or insane. — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one. — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Very few authors, especially the unpublished, can resist an invitation to read aloud.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I hear that 5 o'clock whistle in my mind like Fred Flintstone and I have to stop. I'm also not much of… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
And I still buy books at B&N, Borders and Elliot Bay ... I probably shouldn't admit this. But I don't care. I… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
When I ask my parents, it's incredibly obvious I was going to have a creative career at an early age. I've been… — Sophie Kennedy Clark Copy Share Image
every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I always like to write something that will paint a cynical picture, but provide hope at the same time; I like to… — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
“A younger writer, David Leavitt, would later say he envied White for having “such a representative life”. And it’s true: the zeitgeist… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck… — Steven Heighton Copy Share Image
“All writers are, somewhere or other, mad. Not les grands fous, like Rimbaud, but mad, yes, mad. Because we do not believe… — Patricia Duncker Copy Share Image
“No other library anywhere, for example, has a whole gallery of unwritten books - books that would have been written if the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When people ask what kind of nonfiction I write, I say 'all kinds,' but really I mean I don’t write any kind… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
No one reads to hear someone complain about the weather or how poorly their children are behaving. You have to give the… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Hemingway once said that ‘there is nothing to writing, you just sit down at a typewriter and bleed.’ What Hemingway failed to… — Sean Norris Copy Share Image
“Besides, Fi was convinced that instinct could determine a body's literary needs, just as physical cravings pointed to dietary shortfalls. She'd experienced… — Masha Hamilton Copy Share Image
