I think now, whenever I write, there is nothing that will really compare to pen and paper. — Bishop Briggs Copy Share Image
“I don’t believe in skipping ahead Dale. I read the book all the way through.” — Jay Crownover Copy Share Image
Well, I've discovered that I really like writing, and I feel that I'm good at it. — John Densmore Copy Share Image
No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to do right now is truly answer my most deepest most unarticulated questions for myself through my writing in… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“I always wanted to be a writer, and I always wrote something – stories, poetry, articles, newsletters, letters. Most writers can't help… — Marina Oliver Copy Share Image
Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Angela Carter's fiction blew me away and really instilled a passion for writing, bolstered by Vladimir Nabokov. But in general, I can't… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“In my Craft or Sullen Art Not for the proud man apart From the raging moon I write . On these spindrift… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me "the writer of the Constitution of the United… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that's… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
“This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Schopenhauer remarked that buying books would be better if you could also buy the time to read them. Books are different from… — John Durham Peters Copy Share Image
Few of those who fill the world with books, have any pretensions to the hope either of pleasing or instructing. They have… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In 'Holes,' I just… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read.” — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make? — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I envy other writers who claim to have a backlog of books they'd like to write. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Whenever I write, I only write about what I know or what I have experienced or feeling. — Tommy Lee Copy Share Image
As a writer you can and should expect to hear conflicting responses to your story. — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
“I remember a time when bookshops smelled of books and not coffee.” — David Llewellyn Copy Share Image
When I write a paper, I change my notation much more than I change my concepts. — Leslie Lamport Copy Share Image
“Think before you write, while you write- and definitely after you have written.” — Sudakshina Bhattacharjee Copy Share Image
