I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough. — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
I think, what's the point of writing a book that you would get in one sitting? — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a real writer, not just someone who dabbles in it, so I deserve some credit. — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
“Struggling writer' e un pleonasm, cuz a writer is always struggling.” — Teodor Burnar Copy Share Image
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If you can start and finish a book, then you're already a million miles ahead of all those people who talk about… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action. — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
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“I walked inside and paused for a moment to breathe in the scent of paper and dust—the perfumes of knowledge.” — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
I hate libraries for the way they put stickers on things. I don't approve of folding over pages, or of writing in… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I'm nothing. Nothing at all without writing. Without truth, my truth, the only truth I know, it's all a gambol in the… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“For Aristotle the literary plot was analogous to the plot of the world in that both were eductions from the potency of… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Write as precisely and as lucidly and as richly as you can about what you find truly mysterious and irreducible about human… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
For me, a lot of Discipline was very personal writing, like writing through and working out being inside this gendered body and… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
An author frequently chooses solemn or overwhelming subjects to write about; he is so impressed at writing about Life and Death that… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentiful… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
My process is surprisingly straightforward. I find myself with little to do over a stretch of time and I say, "I should… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
