Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“When I write I feel like I can breathe. It’s like yoga for the brain.” — Elise Stokes Copy Share Image
It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I long ago ran out of bookshelf space and so, like a museum with its art, simply rotate my books from the… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, is the best occupation I can think of, and there is nothing in the world I would rather do. — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Copy Share Image
“books should go where they will be most appreciated, not sit unread, gathering dust on a foreign shelf, don't you agree?” — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
The man who writes for hire has an obligation, if only to himself, to keep an open mind and to absorb new… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
Dept. of Speculation is gorgeous, funny, a profound and profoundly moving work of art. Jenny Offill is a master of form and… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the… — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
“I don't know whether it is beautiful or sad, that I find such blissful happiness within the confines of my own mind,… — Kendal Rob Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one's life trying to pretend that non-existent people… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things.… — Peter York Copy Share Image
How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how, and you do it the way the old English walnut tree… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught dinner party… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
“I daydream often and sometimes my daydreams interrupt my daydreams. So I write to remember them. If I didn't write, I think… — Regan Walsh Copy Share Image
“Unto my Books-so good to turn- Far ends of tired Days- It half endears the Abstinence- And Pain-is missed-in Praise- As Flavors-cheer… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“In my white room, against my white walls, on my glistening white bookshelves, book spines provide the only color. The books are… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
