Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength. — Mickey Kaus Copy Share Image
Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult. — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
“A true friend is like a good book, the inside is always better than the cover.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to get rid of a book, once I take a look inside.” — Eugenia O'Neal Copy Share Image
Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style." —Vladimir Nabokov” — Leslie Langtry Copy Share Image
I think all writers are a bit crazy; Damaged souls, incapable of doing anything else. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't want to read about make… — Nicole Christie Copy Share Image
A curious thing about written literature: It is about four thousand years old, but we have no way of knowing whether four… — John Barth Copy Share Image
You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
My writing, such as it is, grows out of my sense of discolation, I mean, dislocation. Having lost my place, I write… — Gustavo Perez Firmat Copy Share Image
“I spend some time every week in independent bookshops all over the country and what I see is inspiring!” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Of course having a baby derails the writing process for some time. And I will be the first to say that I… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
“Fiction though it is a fiction, should be written in a way that it feels like a reality, a reality every reader… — Arti Honrao Copy Share Image
“Since Quiggin’s books remained purely hypothetical entities, it seemed reasonable enough that their publisher should exist hypotheticaliy too. I was tempted to… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that,… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10 or 15 years hence, a "thinking center" that will incorporate the functions of… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
The bold and discerning writer who, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I wanted to be involved with literature. I certainly wasn't going to be able to write for a living, and I didn't… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
