“The farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources.” — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Actors should be writers. While a writer puts the story on paper, an actor puts it on screen. — Suhasini Maniratnam Copy Share Image
As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books. — Cheech Marin Copy Share Image
The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“You become a great writer by writing lots and lots of stories, not by rewriting the same story over and over again.” — Scott William Carter Copy Share Image
I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books; they easily draw my mind to themselves and away… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nothing is so intimately a part of a man as his library. It contains just what the possessor wants to look at… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I think economics, content, and the ability to interact with content in new and different ways are what will drive the adoption… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I know that I'm probably far more pedestrian and less talented than many who dreamed of becoming writers but couldn't see the… — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
I don't have time to read much. I'm trying to read 'The Brothers Karamazov' again, for a year now - I keep… — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
“A writer inevitably - and less directly this applies to all the arts - about contemporary events, and his impulse is to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
'We Were the Mulvaneys' is perhaps the novel closest to my heart. I think of it as a valentine to a passing… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he should be immensely… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
A book is actually a place, a place where we, as adults, still have the chance to engage in active imagining, translating… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
“I think of writing as a partnership with the reader. My goal is to feed their imagination, but only partially. If you… — S.J. Pierce Copy Share Image
I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
[Hemingway] always used to bawl me out for including so much topical stuff. He always claimed that was a great mistake, that… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“By its very nature, a writer’s mind is a monkey mind — and meditation, alas, kills the monkey.” — Mara Altman Copy Share Image
For me, writing clarifies things. It gives meaning, and it makes me see the connections. — Firoozeh Dumas Copy Share Image
The first thing a writer needs to know is what kind of writer he/she is. — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“Killing the Angel in the House was part of the occupation of a woman writer.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Gone was the meek little librarian. Gavin made me wanton and reckless” — Kendall Ryan Copy Share Image
Writing is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Habent sua fata libelli et balli [Books and bullets have their own destinies] — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
A man makes his reputation not by what he writes, but by what others write about him. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
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