The writer who cares about usage must always know the quick from the dead. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“I will always love being a writer. There is nothing greater than that.” — Millicent Ashby Copy Share Image
Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
I have only written what I experienced, what I saw, what I learned first-hand. — Mohamedou Ould Slahi Copy Share Image
She could smell the pages. She could almost taste the words as they stacked up around her. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Their house had real hardcover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case,… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
But nothing has replaced the writer. He or she is still stuck with the same old job of saying something that other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She ran out of space for her libary some time ago, but instead of making the room larger she has opted to… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency.… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
The first thing I would say to young writers is, "Don't do it, unless you can't stand not to do it." And… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
“I worked transferring books to computer discs, to cut down on storage space and replacement costs, they said. Discers, we called ourselves.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Nora, I believe life’s like a good book. Time makes up the pages that will be your story. Every time your life… — Elizabeth Isaacs Copy Share Image
“YOU ARE JUST You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong. You are… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Fortunately, the world is full of people with information compulsion who want to tell you their stories. They want to tell you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“No matter how entertaining, diverse, concise, or detailed, a writing craft book is, it’s not going to work magic on you, it’s… — Jessica Bell Copy Share Image
“It was then that I began to write. Writing helps when you can't talk to your friends; it wasn't that my friends… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
Don’t be in too much of a rush to be published. There is enormous value in listening and reading and writing—and then… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
