“Books are boring.' 'Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Writing doesn’t get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
My best writing is often early in the morning and, sometimes, while working out. — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
“If you don't write with the reader in mind, you are not a writer, period.” — Tom Grimes Copy Share Image
I write about what happens to me. It's all there. I couldn't do it any other way. — Peter Frampton Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to write a book. And it turned out that it was more about finding a story that I felt… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
I will have an endless invisible night and read all those books and understand all until I am a liquid chromium cascade… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems. — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
Life is like a book, you'll never know what chapter two is all about because all you keep doing is re-reading chapter… — Chee Vai Tang Copy Share Image
Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
The idea of a book that can make a change to your life, that can affect your perspective, is a beautiful and… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself.… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I don't wake up in the morning and say, wow I've got a great idea for a story. But I sit down,… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
My vocation is to write and I have known this for a long time. I hope I won't be misunderstood; I know… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
Preparation is not only about managing external risks, but about limiting the likelihood that you'll unwittingly add to them. When you're the… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
In some instances, I would say the writer does deserve equal billing with the director. In other instances the director - especially… — Mark Romanek Copy Share Image
“This is what writing does to you: it makes you put everything under a microscope of metaphors and similes, surrounded by memories… — Ibraheem Hamdi Copy Share Image
I've always thought of my writing as a spiritual practice. But I think that fiction is the most supernatural kind of writing… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century… — Keith Donohue Copy Share Image
“History gives us the facts, sort of, but from literary works we can learn what the past smelled like, sounded like, and… — Scott Herring Copy Share Image
Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“A great book is not always on the best seller list, follow your own path to discovery” — Taylor Shawcross Copy Share Image
It is so much hard work writing your first novel. You're not even sure that it is possible to do. — Asa Larsson Copy Share Image
“In a world that devalues creativity, writers stand in a courageous place.” — Greg Sushinsky Copy Share Image
But life never lets you go, does it? You can't put down life the way you put down a book. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I love writing. I love to write, and I would eventually love to have some of my work produced. — Liana Liberato Copy Share Image
When you're writing with someone else it helps you think of things you never would've thought of. — Ingrid Michaelson Copy Share Image
I started writing when was probably 15 or 16. I got put on the stage when I was 14 or 13. — Skip Marley Copy Share Image
