The pleasure for me is in the writing process, which has its own challenges. — Thiagarajan Kumararaja Copy Share Image
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.” — Nicholaa Spencer Copy Share Image
“Writing is a defence against boredom, but it's also a cure for melancholy.” — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
I'm always writing from some difficult place and seeing how the character survives... or doesn't. — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
Trace of Magic caught me up fast and pulled me in tight for a fun, action-and-sass adventure full of deadly magic and… — Devon Monk Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I'm not ritualistic about writing. I try to write as often as possible, which means that I have to be able to… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I feel luck plays a vey crucial role in determining the success of the book. Marketing a book is also very important.… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
I need a consistency of my moods if there is to be any consistency in my style. I can't attempt to write… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
I know that sometimes it happens that a novelist is embarrassed about their early works. For me, it's the opposite: I believe… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Sequencing - the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader - matters in an article, but it is absolutely… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“Just as there can be a hole in these narratives, a memoir can be as much about what's forgotten as what's remembered.” — Jane Alison Copy Share Image
He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front… — Kate Baldwin Copy Share Image
There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises…… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
“Lending Out Books You're always giving, my therapist said. You have to learn how to take. Whenever you meet a woman, the… — Hal Sirowitz Copy Share Image
English writing tends to fall into two categories - the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controlled, tidy novel. For a… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry… — Cheryl Mendelson Copy Share Image
“Julia had once been picked out to work in Pornosec, the sub-section of the Fiction Department which turned out cheap pornography for… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Being a writer is like standing naked in the High Street hoping people won't find you ridiculous.” — Graham Storrs Copy Share Image
“Mary Connealy is a Carol Award winner and a RITA Award finalist. An author,” — Mary Connealy Copy Share Image
Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone. — Jennifer Niven Copy Share Image
“Writing is an amazing thing. Because paper doesn't tell you to shut up, never ever EVER.” — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar. — Jack Paar Copy Share Image
“Books are my refuge. I can crawl into the space between the pages and curl my back to loneliness.” — Anubhav Mishra Copy Share Image
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“If you were waiting for a sign that you’re meant to be a writer… THIS IS IT.” — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions... — Farley Mowat Copy Share Image
