“The second thing you have to do to be a writer is to keep on writing. Don't listen to people who tell… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
An acquaintanceship with the literature of the world may be won by any person who will devote half an hour a day… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
You have to fight against all the things that will keep you out of writing, because life doesn't go with writing. You… — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
Yes?’ he asked, looking at me over the sheet. ‘I’m a writer temporarily down on my inspirations.’ ‘Oh, a writer, eh?’ ‘Yes.’… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how distilled could… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
Every other day I read a book. It takes me two days to finish a book. I like reading because if I'm… — Khleo Copy Share Image
Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora's box, a story that's… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
A writer, or a beginning writer, is faced by the huge walls of self-consciousness. Most people think, "What if I say the… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
In writing a novel, the writer must be able to identify emotionally and intellectually with two or three or four contradicting perspectives… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read… — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
Writing was always a laborious thing for me. I never wrote fluently, I never wrote fluidly, there was something very awkward in… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Many times, what people call 'writer's block' is the confusion that happens when a writer has a great idea, but their writing… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world… — C. J. Box Copy Share Image
“Fiction had never been Jackson's thing. Facts seemed challenging enough without making stuff up. What he discovered was that the great novels… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I always try to keep my pen game up and basically really write from the heart and whatever I may see. Its… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom's Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
It's not even so much about publicity, it's more just letting people know that things are available, because books aren't a flash… — Ian Christe Copy Share Image
I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding.… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If what you're writing is genuine, regardless of whether it sounds cliche or people wouldn't necessarily think it's the most brilliant metaphor… — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
Somethings get easier. You get more confident in your abilities and you learn what kind of stories sell and what don't. But… — Lori Wilde Copy Share Image
Every morning, we choose between milk or tea or coffee. Usually, I know what I like, but I don't rule out changing… — Maurizio Cattelan Copy Share Image
When I admire a writer, it's for the recognizable palette - Hemingway's minimalism, the dialogue, those isolated bar scenes. But with each… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that… — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
I write to invite the voices in, to watch the angel wrestle, to feel the devil gather on its haunches and rise.… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
“This is a place of mystery, Daniel, a sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Books are the way that the dead communicate with us. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
When we say we can pull resources away from libraries, from culture, from those parts of the education system that are not… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
As writers, our craft makes us sit alone at a desk and hammer away at our novel. Doing that day in and… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
That is why the ideal literary diet consists of trash and classics; all that has survived, and all that has no reason… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
“The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped these days, when we have the results of them… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
The reason business writing is horrible is that people are afraid. Afraid to say what they mean, because they might be criticized… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
When you read you can have every adventure. In the pages of a book you can be anyone you ever dreamed of… — Janette Oke Copy Share Image
I started dealing with my emotional pain by writing. I always had been a writer, but just not songs. Saying things on… — India.Arie Copy Share Image
There's no really other way to learn writing than by writing. So accelerate that as much as you can. The more you… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
It's possible I'm a weird person, you know, and if I could only write for people who are like me, I wouldn't… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
People seem to read so much more nonfiction than fiction, and so it always gives me great pleasure to introduce a friend… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
