I'm a writer and I also do a lot of professional speaking on risk taking and creativity as well. — William Gurstelle Copy Share Image
There's a children's book by Anthony Browne called 'The Tunnel' that I've always loved. — Billy Howle Copy Share Image
I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world. — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
In 'Happier at Home,' I write a lot about my struggle to create an unhurried atmosphere at home. — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
It's hopeless! Tomorrow there'll be even more books I should have read than there are today. — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
Every writer, no matter published, unpublished, award-winning, or bestselling, faces insecurity. It crops up everywhere and, in my personal experience, nearly every… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Good literature is one key to peace. When we stop reading each other, when we stop paying attention to each other's words… — Dave DiGrazie Copy Share Image
For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
As irony would have it, the very person who inspired me to write a memoir... was the only person to be ejected… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing. — William Safire Copy Share Image
Writers should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for talking about words, we know what he will produce… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“People who collect books, and categorize them by Roy G. Biv instead of alphabetically, are displaying the fact that their books aren't… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Publishing a book is like giving birth. You labor over it and then produce what you think is the most beautiful thing… — Jordan Silver Copy Share Image
“Personal essay writing that incites the mind and instigates personal growth involves examination and re-examination, a process of noticing and reflecting upon… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Writing is the act of creation. Put words on page. Words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to 7-book epic fantasy cycles… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
“I think I read in at least two ways. First, by following, breathlessly, the events and the characters without stopping to notice… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Writing can be a tough gig. Whenever you do something in which you put yourself out there - if that becomes the… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
“Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Getting a beginner publishing deal really helped me gain the skills. I just kept writing and writing. You just take everything out… — Jon Pardi Copy Share Image
“And I cannot read a page of anything I’ve written without making five changes—that’s my average.” — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write. — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
“I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Choose a book," she said. "Any book. Bring it here, and I'll show you what else the world can offer.” — Peter V. Brett Copy Share Image
The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality". — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I consider a house without books or a piano to be unfurnished. — Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as an 'unemployed writer', only an unemployed mind” — Kevin Cowdall Copy Share Image
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think that every book that's in a bookstore should entertain in some way. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
There's no posterity to write for. I'm writing now for mutated arthropods. — Peter Reading Copy Share Image
