It's very important for a writer to be unnoticed, as quiet and unnoticed as possible. — Edith Pearlman Copy Share Image
“All of us who write need a good editor. - Sharon Langevin Crawford” — Sharon Langevin Crawford Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Truth in her dress finds facts too tight. In fiction she moves with ease.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule. — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it. — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“I don't think you can reach your potential as a writer unless you're a passionate reader, AND read passionately.” — Michelle D. Kwasney Copy Share Image
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I slammed the book shut and and crowed, 'And that is why you don't kick the librarian off the investigation!” — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year. — William Styron Copy Share Image
“When does a novel begin? The question is almost as difficult to answer as the question, when does the human embryo become… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The writer is just so much more intimately involved in the television process than the feature film process. — Travis Beacham Copy Share Image
“Most of my writing is emotionally autobiographical. You’ve got to pull up the things that mean something to you in order for… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Life gives us struggles first and reward later. And as a writer my life's purpose is to write and tell stories. Some… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Helpful to me over the years was some of Ernest Hemingway's writing, for example A Farewell to Arms. You have characters who… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
You're always hoping you can attract a bigger audience, but at the same time, I'd hate to give up what I write.… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
“Cultures are like books, the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss once remarked, each a volume in the great library of humankind. In the sixteenth… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it. Ignore the authors… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I think it's hard to make a living as a writer, but I think it's hard to work at McDonald's too… I… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
Sweet Jane' is my favorite song by Lou Reed the writer, at least the Velvet Underground Lou Reed. — Scarface Copy Share Image
If I hadn't been able to get my first book published, I am not sure what I would have done. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
As an SF writer, you've got the infinite toolkit of the writer at your disposal. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read. — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
“Why bother to learn to read when you can smell meat a mile away?” — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you. — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
“Never give more time to reading a book than to reflecting upon its contents.” — Frank Morton McMurry Copy Share Image
The first two chapters of any first draft generally need to be cut. — Aprilynne Pike Copy Share Image
Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I always have had a slightly jaundiced view about people who promote books about themselves. — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
