The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing. — Judith Rossner Copy Share Image
A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Obviously I don't have whatever it is you need to be a successful writer. — Peter James Copy Share Image
I definitely prefer to write under my own volition and see what happens. — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at. What I see and what I fear. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Have you never picked up a book you've read before, and found it speaks to you in a new way?” — Django Wexler Copy Share Image
Being a writer means I sit in a dark (and pretty dank) room off my garage for many hours a day, and… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Oh, darling, you know we writers must occasionally stretch a point to heighten the dramatic situation. ” — Patrick Dennis Copy Share Image
I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell… — Irwin Winkler Copy Share Image
Since I've written many of my books from a less-than-sympathetic viewpoint, I think that being able to see things from all sides… — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“You know that frustrating feeling of losing the page in your book? You didn't want to go too far ahead and spoil… — Rebecca Raisin Copy Share Image
“If my grandfather was here, he would have died laughing ... Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man… — Stephen J. Joyce Copy Share Image
Several years ago we had an intern who was none too swift. One day he was typing and turned to a secretary… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“When George Plimpton asked Ernest Hemingway what the best training for an aspiring writer would be in a 1954 interview, Hem replied,… — Hemingway, Ernest Copy Share Image
I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
“She found it quite easy to interpret builders' estimates and do VAT calculations. She'd got some books from the library, and found… — Terry Pratchett Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“In the Middle Ages, as in antiquity, they read usually, not as today, principally with the eyes, but with the lips, pronouncing… — Jean Leclercq Copy Share Image
