I never told anybody I wanted to write, I kind of fell into it backwards. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The knowledge and insights you can get in just one day at a writers' conference make it worth the trip. — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
“Nobody hits it right more of the time than E. B. White: "All writing is both a mask and an unveiling.” — Jeri Parker Copy Share Image
A popular writer writes about what people think. A wise writer offers them something to think about. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Travelling is difficult, and writers tend to want to stay at home and do their work. — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
Unfortunately for novelists, real life is getting way too funny and far-fetched. — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we… — James Merrill Copy Share Image
As a writer, I'm driven by settings. Others are driven by characters or predicaments, but with me, settings come first. — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul,… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
You don't need to go to a therapist, you don't need to do all kinds of things. If you want to write,… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of rearing… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
It feels like my books come true. I write these things, and then they kind of end up happening. I wasn't divorced,… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Oddly, the highly productive writer found writing wearing. “My botherations often won’t let me work,”11 he complained. He” — Jack Lynch Copy Share Image
'Sunday Morning Coming Down' is probably the most directly autobiographical thing I'd written. In those days, I was living in a slum… — Kris Kristofferson Copy Share Image
I always write too long in the beginning, then it is a matter of going through it over and over again on… — Chevy Stevens Copy Share Image
Great storytellers in the past would go to an unknown land and return to tell the stories they've found. Those were also… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the… — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
Though I consider The Chronology of Water to be an anti-memoir for very precise reasons, it is an art form, and thus… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. Style and personality are irrelevant. They can be formal or… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
I've been in so many writing workshops where someone hands in a story, and when the other writers in the workshop are… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once -- I've been working on three different novels. When I… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
