“I write because words swim around in my head like unruly tadpoles until I do” — Maureen Tuohy Copy Share Image
A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
The real threat to reading isn’t the time we spend hanging out, it’s the time we spend online. — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
“In an era where Existence is incontestable, Truth is subjective, and Reality is perceived, fiction must mediate between the three.” — Henry Martin Copy Share Image
I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me,… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The books turn out to be about things afterwards. I don't go into them with concepts, for the most part. — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
I was trained to serve the writer and director as an actor before I serve myself. Not to say that's gotten in… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
“I’m a librarian, not a leader.” “You’re both! Librarians and archeologists have always been the ones to bring civilization back.” — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
Ideally, writing ought to be like riding a bicycle: something you know how to do without having to think consciously about exactly… — Brian Stableford Copy Share Image
It was amazing to me then, and still is, that so many people who wander into bookshops don't really know what they're… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I cannot occupy myself with "characters," or at any rate central ones, who lack panache, in one or another… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“To me, a recently read novel was like a miniature planet: only a few hours earlier I had been breathing its air… — Julie Schumacher Copy Share Image
“I can't think of anything that anyone has ever accomplished without having some sort of self-discipline. Without knowing how to work for… — Cameron Diaz Copy Share Image
The writings are often written in a kind of exhaustion or delirium, I try very hard not to censor myself, to be… — Jill Magid Copy Share Image
“Gaiman wrote the first draft in fountain pen, in several five-hundred-page, leather-bound sketchbooks that he purchased in a close-out sale. "I really… — Hank Wagner Copy Share Image
“Over the years, my experience, my tastes, my prejudices have changed: as the days go by, my memory keeps reshelving, cataloguing, discarding… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“I write a lot because I don't talk much. If I don't write, I'll talk much.” — Nurina Izzati Copy Share Image
Willa Cather said that she write best when she stopped trying to write and began simply to remember. — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential. — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read. — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
That's writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn't turn up. — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
The importance to the world of what we scribblers write is in doubt, I would think. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art — Anonymous Copy Share Image
