Unlike a state, a writer cannot plead the historical necessity of his actions. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Writing fluency sometimes needs an intense agony somewhere in your mind” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
There's some intimacy in reading, some thoughtfulness that doesn't exist in machine experiences. — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“No matter how many books I write, I will eventually get to fiction. That is where I'm going.” — Neil Young Copy Share Image
“Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don't care who reads them.” — Augusta Scattergood Copy Share Image
You'd only write what you know and what you know is what you do and the people you know. So you'd write… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
I was like, 'I have to start writing for myself, to show people what I can do and what my point of… — Kay Cannon Copy Share Image
Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff,"… — Bobby Farrelly Copy Share Image
I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“In a short story by Chekhov or a novel by Balzac he found mysteries which, so far as he was aware, did… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
“I do not use my intellect to write my stories and books; I have a gut reaction to the things that my… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Everything I write is based on something I've personally experienced, or things that my friends have experienced that I just find horribly… — Kesha Copy Share Image
You have to force yourself to give up and to move onto something else. That's the way you grow as a writer,… — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
“In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual trail, you… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I wrote in my first book that I was broken, and now it just makes me mad every time. This is why… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
Even fake news tries to convince us of its reality, but it does so mostly by appealing to your preconceived notions, your… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“You think there's something materialistic about collecting books, but really collectors are the last romantics. We're the only ones who still love… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
