“I recommend writing standing up from time to time. It's easier to dance when you finish writing.” — Diego Ramos Copy Share Image
There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair. — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
Just a writer with a pen, writing about my life of sin. Shit, I don't even know where to begin.. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“Write so blazingly good that you can't be framed... Write like a motherfucker.” — Cheryl Strayed 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
“Without a doubt, I must read, all the books I've read about. See the artworks hung on hooks, that I have only,… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline. — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy. — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is… — Gabrielle Roy Copy Share Image
Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
If you want to write what the world is about, you have to write details...real life is in the dishes. Real life… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
How can I tell Bob that my happiness streams from having wrenched a piece out of my life, a piece of hurt… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
If the would-be writer studies people in their everyday lives and discovers how to make his characters in their quieter moods interesting… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
“We may exhort ourselves to read tolerantly, we may quote Coleridge on the willing suspension of disbelief until we think ourselves totally… — Wayne Booth Copy Share Image
If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“PAPER TOWERS The library was on the second floor of the House, not far from my room. It had two floors—the first… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
I used to love to write. As a child I used to write all the time. I loved to write up until… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that I can't do the bigger thing that [Zadie Smith] do so beautifully, as in Swing Time, with so… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
![“I sometimes think that I can't do the bigger thing that [Zadie Smith] do so beautifully, as in Swing Time, with so much world in it and so much rapturous paint thrown around. I don't think it would be possible to write a book on that scale with as much OCD as I have.” quote by George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/793/george-saunders-317_bigger_i-sometimes-think-that-i-can-t-do-the-bi_3125094.jpg)
