I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Fiction is the great liar that tells the truth about how the world really lives.” — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online. — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
“Getting published is a matter of luck. The more we rewrite, the luckier we get.” — Pierre Van Rooyen Copy Share Image
“The only things that one can use in fiction are the things that one has ceased to use in fact.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing. — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or… — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wonder if I talk to myself becuase I'm a writer, or if I'm a writer because I talk to myself” — rosemary clement-moore Copy Share Image
Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
A friend of mine from college is married to Neil Levy, who started on 'Saturday Night Live' in the early days and… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
As the writer of a pseudonymous book, I gave up my own accumulated history as a novelist and became what I had… — Susan Shreve Copy Share Image
I hate being called lazy, so when everybody gets up at half seven in the morning, I'm up at the same time.… — Nadine Shah Copy Share Image
“Barbara, you have done it again! Sweet Salt Air is a fabulous story of friendship, betrayal, courage and love with family and… — Barbara Delinsky Copy Share Image
As a shy, introverted, scholarly child (long ago) I don't know what I would have done without libraries! My family moved often.… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Every skillful writer foregrounds notable aspects of experience, details that might otherwise be lost in the mass of data that continuously bathes… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“…how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard works, with all her family cares, is still… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Maybe I can do some writing then. The phrase made him sick. It had no meaning anymore. Like a word that is… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
You know that this vignette and that vignette belong side by side, you know that a certain turn of phrase you've been… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not. — Nicolas Berggruen Copy Share Image
Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
“Books are so full of thoughts that some of them have learned to think.” — Henry Hitchens (Browse Copy Share Image
I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write, — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I thought that everyone would just think I was a bit of a joke as a writer. — Georgia Toffolo Copy Share Image
... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“Henry was inclined to drift towards books as keenly as a duck paddles for bread crusts.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Writing, long term, is mentally risky but vital culturally and contributes to a non-boring life.” — Hazel Edwards Copy Share Image
People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I never would start writing before midnight and I would finish at, like, seven in the morning. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I spent six years after my first novel and five years after my second without getting into a new book. — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness. — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
