I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman? — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I spend a lot of time imagining things - in fact, you could say that imagining things is my job.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I was a writer since I was a little kid. It just always sort of fit for me. — Brian Bird Copy Share Image
When a regular person gets sick, they take an aspirin. When a writer gets sick, they take notes… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“I write across several genres. I’m a slut for words. I can’t keep it in my literary pants.” — Fierce Dolan Copy Share Image
This is the life I live, and this is the stuff I experience. And like any good writer, I should just write… — Sune Rose Wagner Copy Share Image
Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three dimensional kind), which by its very existence teaches a system… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
One thing that I believe is that every time I write something, I am taking the time to celebrate. Even if I… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I… — Julia Leigh Copy Share Image
I think if I was ever really going to be more serious about writing I'd have to try and find some way… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer who looks for the fantastic and the sensational. I like the world we've got. If there is anything… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out. — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
Write while the heat is in you. The write who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
I read John Irving's novel 'The World According To Garp' when I was about 14 or 15. It was the first grown-up… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
In the old days, writers used to sit in front of a typewriter and stare out of the window. Nowadays, because of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
If I could pick one reason why I want to be a writer, it would be connection. In all kinds of ways,… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
To this day, my mom's unsinkable spirit is an inspiration to me. For nearly thirty years, she's worked at the Library of… — Hoda Kotb Copy Share Image
“I grew as fussy and particular about where to put what, which books should lie where, what cushion should grace what corner… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional. — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I don't really start writing until later in the night. I'm a night owl. — Ester Dean Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories. — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
I read Betty Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," all of Shirley Jackson's books, which I loved. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times? — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Editors are constantly on the watch to discover new talents in old names. — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing is the passageway, the entrance, the exit, the dwelling place of the other in me. — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
I've been around many different lives, many different voices. It was amazing material for a writer. — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
“I tried to close my imagination, but it stayed open like a book that has been read too often.” — Christie Watson Copy Share Image
“Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Who are these people who think a book comes with a guarantee that they will like it?” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
