There's a truth that comes through when an author performs his own work that is unique and special. — Michael Feinstein Copy Share Image
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life. — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
Any book has behind it all the other books that have been written. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you can write any way and it's working out, just bow down in gratitude. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Setting is my primary joy as a writer, building a world and watching people respond to it. — Nicola Griffith Copy Share Image
“A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.” — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Generally, I find that when you're writing and having fun with the writing, that energy and dynamism is going to come out… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
If you have something to say, here's what you do: You write it down on a piece of paper, you go out… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
I'm thinking of writing a book on national health care. It will be 2,000 pages, and you'll have two hours to read it. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“What can I say? I like my books. Some guys like cars, some guys like women, I happen to like books.” He” — Judy Wright Copy Share Image
For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing… — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
Some writing courses will advise you to write what you know. I've always thought this is very odd advice ... because it… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
“Anyone and everyone taking a writing class knows that the secret of good writing is to cut it back, pare it down,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Bulahdeen ignored her. "I taught literature for nearly forty years. The books I read when I was twenty completely changed when I… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard… — Ferdinand Christian Baur Copy Share Image
We are often struck by the force and precision of style to which hard-working men, unpracticed in writing, easily attain when required… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
The novel's not the best form for disposing ideas, though that's one thing it can do. It likely is the best form,… — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
