Memoir is not an act of history, but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“Build your novel one word at a time. Remember that minutes = novels.” — Mercedes M. Yardley Copy Share Image
These words are all I have so I write them I need them just to get by. — Fall Out Boy Copy Share Image
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I don't really write for catharsis; I get that kind of work done in therapy. — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
“Stories are life," protested Pico. "Without them, books would be only paper and ink, with them they breathe, the reader is drawn… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
Take painsto write a neat round, plain hand, and you will find it a great convenience through life to write a small… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“He recalled Mark Twain’s words, “Truth is stranger than Fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth… — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
One of the wonderful things about being a writer is that you're constantly dredging up some arcane knowledge or long-forgotten experience, rediscovering… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“There are books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The quick and dirty way is to write down a one-line description, in the simplest terms possible, of what I’m creating, along… — Giles Colborne Copy Share Image
I think all writers have a bit of genius in them, and a bit of talent. Genius retreats but talent improves. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“A well-read highwayman, who would have thought?” the dowager commented. “Oh, he absolutely adores books. He plans to retire when he has… — Anya Wylde Copy Share Image
“In life, we are all on the same journey, we are all struggling to get from point A to point B. Different… — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek Copy Share Image
I've read a lot of fiction from writers just starting out, and the dialogue is a little bit forced, or it's almost… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
“All I wanted to do was go back inside to the library and read a book.I used to spend all my time… — Kathryn Magendie Copy Share Image
“Sighing, she headed back to work. She braced herself to lift the heavy lid of yet another trunk. The sight inside curled… — Catherine LaRoche Copy Share Image
“The wonderful thing about books--and the thing that made them such a refuge for the islanders during the Occupation--is that they take… — Annie Barrows Copy Share Image
As we go through this transition where a lot more people will be reading on devices, nobody is paying enough attention to… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
As a writer, I'm too busy and worried to experience the delight while composing my own work, although, of course, I hope… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“In my case, I chose writing in place of death, and because I lacked faith.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy. — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
When a new book comes out or becomes accessible in whatever form, I get it and I read it. — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
When you're writing something that is truly original it takes time. — Daniel Lissing Copy Share Image
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Every time I write a new book, I want to push myself to try something different. — Lauren Myracle Copy Share Image
