I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer. — Patricia Clarkson Copy Share Image
Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen. — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
“This book does not exist. And even if it did, it wouldn’t be worth buying or reading.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The first page sells this book. The last page sells your next book. — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
“Nothing can be gained by extensive study and wide reading. Give them up immediately.” — Dōgen Copy Share Image
You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
UNMARKED is both gorgeous and hideous. A frightening and disturbing tale spun with great beauty. Absolutely riveting. — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present. — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
“When I meet someone who says they're not "much for books," I can guarantee that they haven't met the right book yet.” — Kersten Hamilton Copy Share Image
I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits. — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
“You know that part of your writing that you question, —that's weird and doesn't fit neatly into a genre or mold?Write more… — Richard Thomas Copy Share Image
Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
There's no subject you don't have permission to write about. Students often avoid subjects close to their heart ... because they assume… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I read," I say. "I study and read. I bet I've read everything you read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I'm looking for a writer who doesn't know where the sentence is leading her; a writer who starts with her obsessions and… — Sy Safransky Copy Share Image
It starts with the writer-it's a familiar dictum, but somehow it keeps getting forgotten along the way. No film-maker, irrespective of his… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I think art, especially literature, has the particular power to immerse the viewer or reader into another world. This is especially powerful… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see… — Brian A. McBride Copy Share Image
“Just as breathing exercises help integrate body and mind, writing is a kind of psycho-neural muscular activity which helps bridge and integrate… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“His little sister is brilliant. She is at her desk deep in a book, half-opened books all over her desk, all over… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
