A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Writer's block is your self-critic getting in the way, because creativity will just flow otherwise. — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession. — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
. . . All artists’ work is autobiographical. Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what… — Kim Addonizio Copy Share Image
The fact that we don't read more books in America can be traced squarely to the fact that we have newspapers that… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
“Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“...my writing is a wild mustang - more thunderous than a lightning storm -and all my skill which I call art, is… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing than while not writing...” — Josip Novakovich Copy Share Image
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
In my view, the ebook world for both established and new authors is a terrific new and exciting format. It is a… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Don't market yourself. Editors and readers don't know what they want until they see it. Scratch what itches. Write what you need… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She read all sorts of things: travels, and sermons, and old magazines. Nothing was so dull that she couldn't get through with… — Susan Coolidge Copy Share Image
I often give this metaphor where I say that writing short fiction is like surfing, while writing a novel is like navigating… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
O my darling books! A day will come when you will be laid out on the salesroom table, and others will buy… — Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy Copy Share Image
Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“No, I am just writing this because, sometimes, you’re still all I have to write about. Sometimes you’re the only thing that… — Moriah Pearson Copy Share Image
“She picked up her book and tried to read but it was heavy in her hands. She struggled to hold it, wanting… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft. — Siouxsie Sioux Copy Share Image
When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
“Maybe she should stop reading those damn romance novels. They were giving her crazy expectations.” — Lexi Blake Copy Share Image
When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I write because it's a way of presenting something without having to be there. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment. — Marco Arment Copy Share Image
“I find myself anticipating a new kind of storyteller, one who is half hacker, half bard.” — Janet H. Murray Copy Share Image
Planning things is neither my cup of tea nor my choice. Same applies to books too. — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Fiction has this special power. It has a power to clarify, to galvanize, to prophesy, and warn. — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
