I think the only way you can become a writer is through honing your voice, creating your own voice. — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
“I want to be -That guy who wrote that thing there,- but I'm currently, -He's who, who wrote what?-” — Michael Kroft Copy Share Image
I don't need any more stories. I have enough stories. I need a life. — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing. — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library. — Mark Jason Dominus Copy Share Image
“You write on the good days and you wright on the lousy days. Like a shark, you have to keep moving forward… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
“I like to write. I like to choose the right word, I like to write the right sentence. It's just like gardening… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When you write, you are alone. It can be a bit of a shock later to discover that people have read what… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
In writing ... remember that the biggest stories are not written about wars, or about politics, or even murders. The biggest stories… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I separate from everyone. Even my band. I push myself, and I'm alone with my thoughts. Separating from friends… — Vic Fuentes Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as doing the nuts and bolts of reading in Kindergarten through 5th grade without coherently developing knowledge… — David Coleman Copy Share Image
Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The story, I like to say and remember, is always smarter than you—there will be patterns of theme, image, and idea that… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
“She [Mary Maclane] is almost always referred to as “confessional.” She has been referred to, several times, as the first blogger. Whereas… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image