Every day I write. I am not waiting for a great idea from heaven. — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Priya Gowda had never met a book she wouldn't read, and she'd met a lot of them.” — Faith Mudge Copy Share Image
I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing. — Kathryn Harrison Copy Share Image
“real books should be the offspring not of daylight and casual talk but of darkness and silence” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“he said everyone had a book, or a writer, that was the key to their life” — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
“We always hide our souls whenever we create something that praises the heart.” — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels. — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Most of the really fun books that are doing various dialects are also inventing things themselves - they're not pure pastiche. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Oh writer! An Angel watches over all you write. Make your writing meaningful for it will eventually return to you and you… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
“Read people by their surroundings, their personally designed environments. Like external body language, a room and how its arranged tells you things… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
But I think writing should be a bit of a struggle. We're not writing things that are going to change the world… — Evie Wyld Copy Share Image
When you're a mass-market writer, people think that you can just decide 'this happens, this happens, this happens', whereas with literary writers… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“Writing down call numbers with short pencils, searching up and down aisles that would turn dark when the timers on the lights… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
The writer is a person who is standing apart, like the cheese in 'The Farmer in the Dell' standing there alone but… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“In Dostoevsky there were things unbelievable and not to be believed, but some so true they changed you as you read them;… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I, myself, write to change my life, to make it come out the way I want it to. But other people write… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
Wimbledon fortnight is always a testing time for the home worker. I spend most of it on the phone to my writing… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer.… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“I read a lot...I love books. I work with books. Books are my life.” — The Distant Hours Kate Morton Copy Share Image
To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“I have books to read, and much to sit and watch. I try not to let good things go by unnoticed.” — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity. — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
Whether you are inspired or not, the only way to unlock your creativity, is to start writing. — Jane Green Copy Share Image
First and foremost, I am a writer. That's what I have spent my life doing. — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
If you can get kids excited about reading, maybe that can open up a whole other world for them. — Sean Doolittle Copy Share Image
'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer. — George Clooney Copy Share Image
I didn't say I have to be a writer, but I did say that I needed to publish at least one book. — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
“No book has worth by itself, but by the relation to what you have from many other books, it weighs.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me? — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences. — Aaron Carter Copy Share Image
...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church. — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
“I read to escape...I write to help others escape... --Howard Hopkins, Author of The Chloe Files” — Howard Hopkins Copy Share Image
