A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it. — Jules Shear Copy Share Image
“I am not in control of how my characters live their lives, only in writing it down.” — A.H. Browne Copy Share Image
Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that? — Abbi Jacobson Copy Share Image
People who give an unconditional credit to the work of original thinker, writer and doer, deserve an equal plaudit. — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside. — Barry Mann Copy Share Image
I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story. — Isaac Babel Copy Share Image
“I’ve written for the waste basket so often that we’ve become friends. He writes too, but it’s mostly garbage.” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
“(from his random observations after reading David Copperfield by Charles Dickens) In the Old Curiosity Shop I discovered that in the character… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
At the same time that you've got to open yourself up to the fact that experience is going to teach you year… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“People who make snide comments to authors like "anyone can write a book" or "well, you did it, so obviously I can/it… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
Rex Stout's narrative and dialogue could not be improved, and he passes the supreme test of being rereadable. I don't know how… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“It was the fangirl code for every book geek: read, chat, squeal. Re-read, chat, and squeal again, until it’s all over and… — Rachael Wade Copy Share Image
I don't think about the reader when I'm writing, but I do when I'm editing, of course. For instance, I self-consciously didn't… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I couldn't have articulated this process at the time; I just sort of did it instinctually. But now when I talk about… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
I think it's extremely important that children are exposed to reading. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
writers just kept on staring at nothing until they wrote something. Might be two minutes or two weeks. — Martha Grimes Copy Share Image
I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV. — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
“The way I think, the way I act, most of that's because of the books I've read. ” — Andrea K. Höst Copy Share Image
When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good. — Will Champion Copy Share Image
All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with. — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to write about anything personal because I get way too personal. — Angela Alioto Copy Share Image
While I ridicule books of self-help, I'm also quite susceptible to them. They help simplify things. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized.” — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
