If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
I can't bear to be on a train without a book", she announced. " It's a form of self-defence in a way" . — John Boyne Copy Share Image
I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself.… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
I've read somewhere that when you're writing, you should stop while you're doing well so you always want to go back to… — Glenn Frey Copy Share Image
I started writing, then said I don't know if I want to share all that. I don't know if I want to… — Jason Taylor Copy Share Image
I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident. — Kaye Gibbons Copy Share Image
“I might also say, regarding reviews and reviewers, that I have yet to read a review of any of my own books… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life. — Margaret Forster Copy Share Image
If I could have anything I wanted, I would choose story without end, and it seems I have lots of company in… — Annie Barrows Copy Share Image
One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
“Other than along certain emotional tangents there was little in the book that felt as if it had actually been lived. It… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words,… — Annie Ernaux Copy Share Image
Writing is self-taught. Consulting other people only teaches you to depend on their reactions, which may or may not be legitimate. Quit… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
I met a young woman the other day, and she said, what advice would you have for a writer, and I said… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
The autobiographer looks at life through the lens of his or her own life and really uses herself or himself as the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is dizzyingly brilliant. Mark Leyner is a hyperkinetic shaman, who flies the banner of rum and candy and… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
