“Don't write 40k if the same story can be told in 10k words.” — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“How mean to buy only as many books as one will actually have time to read.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
I have an uncomfortable groove, 'cause I have a lot of different kinds of stories to tell. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help? — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff. — T. J. Miller Copy Share Image
I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“in 1444, Cosimo founded Europe’s first public library, the Library of San Marco, and thus began to challenge the Church’s long monopoly… — Michael Baigent Copy Share Image
“There is only so much revealing one can do. For every self-revelation, there has to be a self-concealment. A life-long commitment to… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that… — Jenny Agutter Copy Share Image
You have to relax, write what you write. It sounds easy but it's really, really hard. One of the things it took… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
I began writing after my child was seriously hurt in a day care center accident, and I wanted to come home to… — Leslie Banks Copy Share Image
To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“What I find difficult, when I read, is to encounter other people’s achievements passed off as one’s own. I find it difficult… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed.… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A modern librarian, who has faith in the law that 'BOOKS ARE FOR USE,' is happy only when his readers make his… — S. R. Ranganathan Copy Share Image
At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
“Because you can always count on a book to stay the same . Everything changes when you least expect it, she replies,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Elena Ferrante is the author of several novels. There is nothing mysterious about her, given how she manifests herself - perhaps even… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“ Just So You Know You fall in love with every book you touch. You never break the spine or tear the… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Writing a novel isn't like building a brick wall. You don't figure out how to do it, and then it gets easier… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I hate to badmouth any book or writer, because I know how it feels to be on the other end of that. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“I guess Faulkner never would have written anything like this, huh? Oh, well.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place. — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences. — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
Once I got my life sorted and started to get healthy, then I was able to focus on writing. — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, a lot of kids don't read anymore. I don't know what we can do about that. — Jean Smart Copy Share Image
I just feel like myself when I'm writing. If I don't do it, I get depressed. — Olivia Rodrigo Copy Share Image
