Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
[My mom] is quite the strict editor. I feel like maybe she has more of the old-school editing style, which really works… — Jenna Bush Copy Share Image
With Wings of the Butterfly, John Urbancik infuses his tale of shapeshifters, romance and pack rivalry with some unexpected and welcome surprises.… — Kealan Patrick Burke Copy Share Image
I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of "somedays." Plant your… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
“These friends - and he laid his hand on some of the books - have been good friends to me, and for… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
I do find it challenging to leave stuff out. Two of my models for novel-writing are 'The Great Gatsby' and 'As I… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I certainly do not adore the writer's discipline. I have lost lovers, endangered friendships, and blundered into eccentricity, impelled by a concentration… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Why did you start to write? I left at 15.. I started to write becase I was taken off a ship from… — Hubert Selby Jr Copy Share Image
Writing is the thing that pervades my whole day - I'm always wondering how I might describe something or improve my understanding.… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
When you're young, your perception of what it means to be a writer is often less about the writing and more about… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“Books are just like Rorschach tests. The patterns we find in a book’s ink reveal far more about us than they do… — Sean Norris Copy Share Image
“On my website there's a quote from the writer Anthony Burgess: "The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap,… — Simon Cheshire Copy Share Image
“To call for close reading, in fact, is to do more than insist on due attentiveness to the text. It inescapably suggests… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I can write anywhere really. I have a hard time writing when the birds are tweeting and the brooks are running outside.… — James McBride Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of busywork to a writer's life, as to a professor's life, a great deal of work that… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable... The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“Our library isn't very extensive," said Anne, "but every book in it is a friend. We've picked our books up through the… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“And I see you have not resisted their lure either.” He motioned toward her books. “Might I look at your selections?” She… — Jess Michaels Copy Share Image
If it so happened that I had once written a best-seller, this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naivete, and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. Could I have remembered, as some men… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It's a tendency of many writers to temper the self-destructive… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“Every act of reading is an act of forgetting: the experience of reading is a palimpsest, in which each text partially covers… — James A. Secord Copy Share Image
“Writers have come to master nearly every trade. They are inventors and entrepreneurs of character, plot, and dialogue. They are the eager… — Garrett Dennert Copy Share Image
I don't want to overplay the diary's significance, but it's a really helpful batting aid. It's not an obsession because I don't… — Andrew Strauss Copy Share Image
“When I’m writing, I’m trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
“She kept a stack of books near the tub so she could read in the bath, even though the edges of the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
When you are reading about a book, you focus on the main character, of course. When you have something in common with… — Marley Dias Copy Share Image
“Before I was born she had bought herself a new home health care book. It was large and expensive, and it was… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Writing has been sewn into my soul and I'm afraid my thoughts have no choice but to be the truth to the… — Amber M. Royse Copy Share Image
“I have no idea what will happen when I write. One night I wrote effortlessly for hours, churning out one brilliant paragraph… — Rich Ritter Copy Share Image
In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Being a writer means expressing with passion your imagination, nightmares, dreams, experiences and reality through words on paper. You are a successful… — Sonnia Kemmer Copy Share Image
“My work is whatever I want it to be, and I report to no one regularly. The head librarian -- the man… — Martha Cooley Copy Share Image
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