There's no such thing as writer's block. I'm brilliant all the time every day. It never stops. — Dave Finkel Copy Share Image
You work hard on a book and throw it out there and then it's beyond your control. — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
When I write, I operate as a writer and a reader both - I never know what's going to happen. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I'm always jotting things down on pieces of paper. I've got pieces of paper all over my house. — Don Henley Copy Share Image
“If you write something that you love beyond all reason, it is wrong and you should strike it out.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Everything in my life affects my writing. There are no separate parts of my life. — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
Part of what you try and do when you're writing is to just transcend politics and the moment in a way and… — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
“Nabokov changed my life," Max said. "I was going to be a writer, and then I read Lolita and I decided to… — Daniels, Leslie Copy Share Image
“When you write a story, you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Why was it librarians had such a prim image? With all the information available in books right there at their fingertips, librarians… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I've learned over the years that big-name writers might be treated fairly by the media conglomerates that dominate publishing today. But the… — Thomas Hauser Copy Share Image
'Pnin' by Vladimir Nabokov, which is a literally small book, fit right in my common law book. I would sit in class… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
I guess of all those novels, Don DeLillo's Falling Man is the one I like the best. I thought there were some… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
It looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it has been: it keeps falling open… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
The great thing about fiction is that I don't have to settle on an answer to any troubling question, or even a… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing,… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
I always wrote as a vehicle for expression but did not try writing for publication until my mid-thirties, at which time I… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I really want to satisfy myself. I've got a story that I am working on and struggling with, and… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The private and serious drama of guilt is not often a useful one for fiction today and its disappearance, following perhaps the… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
