Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The hardest part of writing is the same as doing your homework...it's staying seated in your chair.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you are a writer, the assist-to-turnover ratio... there are a lot more turnovers than assists. — Jeff Baena Copy Share Image
One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I really don't keep an outline; I don't organize in any way. I just write. — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the one you want to read is always out. — Thomas Lansing Masson Copy Share Image
I could write another collection of personal essays from what has happened to me in the last year alone. I don't seek… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Most of the pleasure of making a book would go if it held nothing to be shared by other people. I would… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in characters who aren't broken. I'm not interested in happy people. It just doesn't draw me as a writer. — John Logan Copy Share Image
Remember that input is as important as output. Take in something for inspiration, to relight the fire inside you, and ideas on… — Camille Perri Copy Share Image
“That old man over there Is selling trinkets made of stones That old woman the entire world In a map without any… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“In recovery, it's all about putting one foot in front of the other. As a writer, it's all about putting one word… — Jennifer Storm Copy Share Image
“Zander was always sneaking off to the library to get more books ... Guy would read anything. Said books were more interesting… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I love to write. I'm not necessarily a joke writer, but I think I can find a lot of comedy in humanity,… — Heidi Gardner Copy Share Image
I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Originally I had planned to write just a couple of children's books and then, return the focus on adult literature. A funny… — Nikki Grimes Copy Share Image
“The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
For writers: If you polish a book too much, it'll be flat and shiny and smooth--and not too interesting. It's the little… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
I hadn't meant to do the pattern of publishing short stories and then a novel. I thought, 'I'm a novelist. I know… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I don't think you can write an experience as you're having it without being an idiot. — Jessa Crispin Copy Share Image
This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I believe if you've written a book, you have to stand up and say, 'Guys, buy the book.' — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum. — Dominick Dunne Copy Share Image
Thinking is a great joy for a good writer and a great torture for the bad one! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“The important thing for any writer to remember is to take the writing seriously, but not the writer.” — A.E. Poynor Copy Share Image
“a light that made me think of long hours in dusty libraries, and old books, and silence.” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The hoes is librarians, they lookin me up. She got a Jones like Marion, she lickin me up. — J Cole Copy Share Image
In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Spending time with a book is much more than just learning to read. — Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall Copy Share Image
I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see. — Zosia Mamet Copy Share Image
