I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind. — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am. — David E. Kelley Copy Share Image
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes. — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Because at night when others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
“For when one is about to embark on some enterprise, it is precisely the books whose contents have nothing at all in… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Self-editing a novel is like trying to put pants on a cat: yes, it's painful and time consuming, but in the end,… — Robert Jack Copy Share Image
Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
You have to surrender to a book. If you do, when something in it seems to be going askew, you are wounded.… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
From the earliest age, I was just different. I think that's part of every writer's little revenge. You think, 'I'm not a… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
Every writer knows that when you're imitating somebody - you know, you're sounding like Faulkner - you're doing pretty good, but your… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
More than anything I am a novelist. But for me, an author's job is not only to create linguistically accomplished works. As… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know… — Sharon O'Brien Copy Share Image
Position yourself to succeed by doing the other things in your life that rejuvenate you. You can create little islands of time… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the… — Tabitha King Copy Share Image
“Read together, these two completed narratives constitute the saga of an exemplary twentieth-century American unsentimental education, in which the generosity of Billy… — William S. Burroughs Jr Copy Share Image
“It’s 3:33 am as I’m writing this down on loose sheets of printer paper. I’m in the back office sitting behind the… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
When I was a child, there was very little money, so I've always been concerned for my financial security, which has meant… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“From the outset Dickens seemed to take charge even though he was younger than Seymour and less well known. His narrative input… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
