I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards. — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head. — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
I wrote stuff so deep. I saw a letter that I wrote when I was about 11, and I'm like, 'Calm down,… — Shira Haas Copy Share Image
I write mostly in my office in the shed outside at home, but it can get very cold. I write best on… — Dermot Healy Copy Share Image
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first draft is the child's draft, where you let it all pour out and then let it romp all over the… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I spent the rest of the workday on routine paperwork, snarling at misplaced files and seething at the stupidity of everyone else's… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
I like to write in the mornings, so I try to protect 9 A.M. - 12 P.M. for me. I can drop… — Douglas Brunt Copy Share Image
... I used words without precautions. I wanted to disappear into them, I fled into the bovaryism of the writer trying to… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Has anybody read the book Thirteen Reasons Why I am reading it right now and its pretty good so far if you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Despite wanting to work in publishing, I was a publisher's worst nightmare: I rarely bought new books. So my goal was to… — Andrew Latimer Copy Share Image
The biggest takeaway from a memoir is that you have to play fair. Within the first draft, I was writing very angrily… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity. But… — Suzanne Brockmann Copy Share Image
The more passive one's life in the field, the greater the need to reverse the situation when one returns home, which is… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
When a writer's whole being is poured into a piece of work, there is never enough. The feeling of finally getting to… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Before unearthing this letter, I had questioned myself about the ways in which a book can be infinite. I could think of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“...a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts,… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“Books are the greatest treasure of wisdom and knowledge for mankind.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
As long as there's a strong theme that I can identify with, that's what makes me interested in writing. — Bobcat Goldthwait Copy Share Image
After four years of Freudian analysis I realised I had written Solitary Man about myself. — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book. — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
It seems to me in the past it's been a good thing, as a writer, to have experiences I hadn't expected. — Louise Gluck Copy Share Image
I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“I feel like writing is sometimes the only way I understand anything.” — John Corey Whaley Copy Share Image
I write in the morning - and then I'm always experimenting and tasting recipes for the books. — Diane Mott Davidson Copy Share Image
“All fiction is better with explosions," said Jared. "Basic fact of life.” — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
I think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
