For short term relaxation, I take a hot tub. It's my best way to unblock writers' block, too. For a bit longer… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is a resolutely solitary pastime, and I love being with people, so the public side of being an author is,… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
There's a paradox in rereading. You read the first time for rediscovery: an encounter with the confirming emotions. But you reread for… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“focus completely and without distraction on a single research task. (He typically divides the writing of a scholarly paper into three discrete… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
I always thought of writing as public, I never thought of writing a diary. I had been struck by, jolted by things… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
“Of course, if I write a first-person novel about a woman writer, I am inviting every book reviewer to apply the autobiographical… — John Irving Copy Share Image
From time to time, I'll look back through the personal journals I've scribbled in throughout my life, the keepers of my raw… — Hoda Kotb Copy Share Image
At the outset, I think that one should be natural, not just when it comes to writing but in every area of… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, I was a workaholic clocking more than 80 hours per week. That changed after I began to write.… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
The important thing is not to be too comfortable when you're writing. Noise in the street? That's good. The computer goes down?… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I have been privileged to write across multiple facets of my life: to write romance novels, to write memoir, to write about… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
I'm into lately being a little less precious about writing and being like, "Okay, what if I just locked myself in my… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
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“Write at a pace that doesn't surpass your creative flow. Don't be hasty; don't be sloppy. Don't forfeit impressive writing for an… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Slowly, after dozens of rejection slips and failures and false starts and postponed dreams - what Langston Hughes called dreams deferred -… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
“It was [John Gardner's] conviction that if the words in the story were blurred because of the author's insensitivity, carelessness, or sentimentality,… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
There's something not normal about you if you're writing a book about yourself, or about anything. And if you're the kind of… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“To me, the best, if not the only function of imaginative writing, is to lead the human imagination outward, to take it… — Clark Ashton Smith Copy Share Image
“Writing is a mixed blessing. We, who are addicted, berate ourselves and feel guilty when we don't write and at the same… — Marcia Preston Copy Share Image
I have very rarely written autobiographical stuff. "Greasy Lake" and some other works have some autobiographical elements, as does "Birnam Wood," the… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
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Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
The greatest reward for a children's author is in knowing that our efforts might stir the minds and hearts of young readers… — Charles Ghigna Copy Share Image
As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I write both, as you know, dozens of ecological and social scientific and historical works, dozens of novels. It's hard to describe… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
“How dearly, indeed, I loved my pit, my dusky room, the area of my desk with its piles of books! How I… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
The Adderall Diaries is phenomenal. With jittery finesse and a reformed tweaker's eye for detail, Stephen Elliott captures the terrifying, hilarious, heart-strangling… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Fortunately, we have writers who very much respect the classic characters and the integrity of the classic characters, that are also terrific… — Bob Bergen Copy Share Image
I'm not someone who has a list of great books I would read if I only had the time. If I want… — Sigrid Nunez Copy Share Image
There are different reasons why people write: for themselves, or for other writers, or to get prizes, or keeping an audience in… — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
I use three main tools in writing: instinct, hard work and dumb luck. Dumb luck is missing a train and, while you… — David Massengill Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you write a thing you think, 'Oh, this is good', and it's not a modesty or an immodesty thing, you… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
At its most basic we are discussing a learned skill (writing), but do we not agree that sometimes the most basic skills… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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![“I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As I read them I highlight certain passages. Then I have an assistant write down each quote on an index card and note where it came from.” quote by Lawrence Wright](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/124/lawrence-wright-5166_assistants_i-read-a-lot-of-books-here-are-the-books_3017414.jpg)
![“It was [John Gardner's] conviction that if the words in the story were blurred because of the author's insensitivity, carelessness, or sentimentality, then the story suffered from a tremendous handicap. But there was something even worse and something that must be avoided at all costs: if the…” quote by Raymond Carver](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/148/raymond-carver-2821_books_it-was-john-gardner-s-conviction-that-if_2203571.png)
![“I have very rarely written autobiographical stuff. "Greasy Lake" and some other works have some autobiographical elements, as does "Birnam Wood," the one I chose to end [this collection] with. I lived in that house and some of my feelings are expressed in it, but it's not autobiography. It was not…” quote by T.C. Boyle](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4e2/t-c-boyle-8108_autobiographical_i-have-very-rarely-written-autobiographi_1692611.jpg)
