“What do you write in those forms?" I asked. "Nothing. I just do this to look threatening.” — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers. — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
You don't have to be crazy to be a writer, but it certainly does help — Mary Jo Putney Copy Share Image
Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance. — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
I'm still surprised to be an author. I wonder what I'll write next? — Mordicai Gerstein Copy Share Image
I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important. — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
I think people underestimate the value of collaboration, especially for writers. — Akiva Goldsman Copy Share Image
The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I'm still undisciplined in the fact that I'm not writing anything down. I just get these lines and start piecing it together… — Adam Granduciel Copy Share Image
I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'High Stakes,' I followed the classical format. I wrote an outline first, then a first draft, then got feedback… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
“Anyone who finds himself incapable of grasping the complexities of a work hides his withdrawal behind the most superficial pretext because he… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
My husband and I are huge bibliophiles. He's always reading 'The New York Times Book Review' and then ordering 20 books online. — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it… — Francine Mathews Copy Share Image
“Once you're into a story everything seems to apply- what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something—anything—down on paper. What I’ve… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I wished I could take every course in the curriculum and read every book in the library. Sometimes after I finished a… — Susan Crandall Copy Share Image
“Standing there, I felt almost overwhelmed by the room. It was the ultimate library, heaven for a girl who considered herself a… — Nicole Peeler Copy Share Image
“The academic study of literature leads basically nowhere, as we all know, unless you happen to be an especially gifted student, in… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
My mother lived her life through movies and books - she read everything there was to read. And she read to me… — Jerry Weintraub Copy Share Image
Writers are two-home men - they want a place outside and a place within. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Don't try to outguess what's going on in publishing, and write what you want to write. — George Singleton Copy Share Image
“You know how dey say some people “devour” books? Not in da way ME do! Me REALLY devour books!” — Mike Pantuso Copy Share Image
I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Writing is the thing that sustains me and keeps me going. It is a form of self-preservation for me. — Bei Dao Copy Share Image
I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text. — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I've never written the things I'd like to write that I've admired all my life. Maybe one never does. — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it! — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
