“...writers, like priests, should have compassion...and a sensitivity to pain...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“I know why writers write- they write to untangle the knots in their hearts.” — Virginia Frances Schwartz Copy Share Image
The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to… — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
I was most incorrigibly devoted to versifying, and all my spouse's wholesome admonitions had no manner of effect on me; in short,… — Laetitia Pilkington Copy Share Image
A dry period for me means perhaps going two or three nights without writing. I probably have dry periods but I'm not… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write.… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldn't turn off the outside world to the extent that I can… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“...Love can give you the most exhilarating wonderful highs at times... ...Then there will be dives that will take all you have… — Elizabeth Funderbirk Copy Share Image
If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro,… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
Being known as a writer did change the relationships I had with directors. The rap on actors is that they always want… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
“Writers just play out their fantasies in their books. They are often very unstable, tricky people, Bertie. Writers are usually very bad… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“And I would not blame you if you still asked, Why bother to make contact with kindred spirits you never see and… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I often meet frustrated young writers who say they've only got so far and just can't finish a book. Even if you… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
“When it was time to write, and he took his pen in his hand, he never thought of consequences; he thought of… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The best piece of advice I ever received about being a writer came from my brother Lee. I was just starting out… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
“My advice to a budding literary critic would be as follows. Learn to distinguish banality. Remember that mediocrity thrives on "ideas." Beware… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely. — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
An editor does not just join shots. He creates emotions out of the shots. — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
Dont like sittin the pen it stinks, but in brooklyn we sit in the pens like ink. — Papoose Copy Share Image
“Joy's life in the doing (..) I mean it's the writing, not the being read that excites me.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I don't know if I'm a writer who plays poker or a poker player who writes. — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
I read a lot when I'm travelling and always have a couple of books on the go. — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life. — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
To read and write will help you understand life. . .to sew and mend will help you survive it. — Gail Tsukiyama Copy Share Image
