I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Remember, you’re allocating time to write, not finding time to write.” — Paul J. Silvia Copy Share Image
I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers. — Frank Harris Copy Share Image
Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life. — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
“Kalo nggak nulis, ya baca. Kalo nggak baca, ya nonton film saja lah.” — Sylvia L'Namira Copy Share Image
I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“...it's always your first attempt every time you write, with your only companions being fear and coffee. That's the way it is… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
Those who want to burn books are either afraid of the ideas contained within the covers or they haven't the courage to… — Tommy Douglas Copy Share Image
I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
The only people who think writing is easy are people who don't write. Writing's a difficult, courageous act. Bravery is required, as… — Gillian Roberts Copy Share Image
Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
The best writing advice I ever got was "Keep moving forward, don't retreat into rewrites." The worst came from a book that… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
Every time I sit down to reread 'War and Peace' - I've read it three times - I feel as though I've… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“If I like a book, I devour it in one sitting, and then I forget a lot. It's fine with me, because… — Francesca Zappia Copy Share Image
One of the many things I love about bound books is their sheer physicality. Electronic books live out of sight and out… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“As a writer, you must truly possess a love for words." "Yes, that's right," I agreed. "I've noticed that some authors favor… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Put your hand on your heart to keep it from flying off to the lovely magical literary island Mary Ann Shaffer and… — Kris Radish Copy Share Image
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Then Mr. Norrell roused himself and took down five or six books in a great hurry and opened them up - presumably… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a dock,… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
It is not the same thing if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner. A writer… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing. — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
“But there are times, I would argue, when fiction delivers the greater truth.” — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
“Writing style can be descriptive without being wordy - and wordy without being descriptive” — Rayne Hall Copy Share Image
Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character. — Tabitha King Copy Share Image
“I've come to realize that love is tragic, somewhere down the line it's inevitable. Fight for it.” — Ann Marie Frohoff Copy Share Image
“I could spend the rest of my life reading, just to satisfy my curiosity” — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
You get the best stuff when people are writing what they're really passionate about. — Lesley Sharp Copy Share Image
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. — James McCosh Copy Share Image
“If the right book can save your soul, then perhaps the wrong ones can damn it.” — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp. — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
