Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A character takes shape in the act of writing. You start with something, and you add or subtract. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.” — Elizabeth Knox Copy Share Image
Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry. — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
English food writer Elizabeth David, cook and author Richard Olney and the owner of Domaine Tempier Lulu Peyraud have all really inspired… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
“Musicians become professionals by playing a hundred live shows. Likewise, writers become authors by publishing a lot of bad work (until it’s… — Jeff Goins Copy Share Image
I refuse to write the same story twice. I keep experimenting. I keep learning how to work. I've been at it pretty… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Are we absolutely certain that Becky Albertalli didn't just steal the diary of a hilariously observant teenage boy? Simon vs. the Homo… — Tim Federle Copy Share Image
I had wanted for so many years to feel that writing really was at the center of my life, not something I… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“Winds move but why must I... in this progression, is there really progress, to lay my words in slamming pronunciations to splatter… — Teresa Fleischer Copy Share Image
We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think I'm a good writer. I think I have my own voice, which is unique to everyone - everyone has their… — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
...Something we once loved, and love now, in the shape of a book. Maybe eBooks are going to take over, one day,… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
I'd go for "really great writer." Although I don't think I am. I know I have a style which is recognizable. I… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'm just really not good at being like anybody else or writing like anybody else. — Alison Sudol Copy Share Image
“Once you learn the joy of reading a whole world of discovery opens up and you'll never look back” — Toby Reynolds Copy Share Image
You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“If the author shows no tears while writing their tale, neither will the person who reads it.” — P.l.n Copy Share Image
A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence. — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
I try to keep my voice in writing, and I think that's why I get so many complaints about how I write. — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
You know, I have dropped three expensive pens on the nib. And it just makes you cry when it happens. — Jim Watkins Copy Share Image
“I love the coffee shops and reading rooms where one can sit and talk or browse forever. I” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Book is a half of a clapping hand and the reader is the other half of it. :)) — Reader's Digest Copy Share Image
“Writing is a form of running away. Running away to a place you made by your own hand.” — Y.K. Raikou Copy Share Image
