“Madness and chaos are self-destructing but over thinking is the suicide.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“2. I’m just caging my monkey mind on paper so I can get on with my fucking day.” — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I love to travel, but when I really want to escape, I read a book. — Jean Craighead George Copy Share Image
Sometimes a writer, like an acrobat, must try a trick that is too much for him. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not. — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you. — Charles Ghigna Copy Share Image
“While some people are good at painting, playing an instrument or singing, I have been told more than once I am good… — Eric Arrouze Copy Share Image
“Because the truth is, fiction is one of the most effective time travel machines in the universe and always has been.” — Ann VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“Writers, in essence, are professional word tamers; if the words walking down the lines were living creatures, they would surely fear and… — Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Copy Share Image
Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Sixteen pages! Full sixteen pages! If you don't want to read, use it to make paper bags.Sell the paper pabs and earn… — Aziz Nesin Copy Share Image
What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks?" asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the house. You're the… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or circumstantial disabilities. — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last for only as long as… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
The best time to write is when your life is in the toilet. Writing offers an escape from your problems, so if… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
“A good writer is also an avid reader. A good reader is also a vivid dreamer. A good dreamer is also a… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“Life is like a movie. Just roll up a film. When you finish it, just be kind and rewind. Don't live it… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“A poetess is not as selfish as you assume. After months of agonising over her marriage of words—the bride— and spaces—the groom,… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“I read a lot of Agatha Christie's that fall of 1938 - maybe all of them. The Hercule Poirots, the Miss Marples.… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I love the beautiful distractions of the world - television and movies, video games, the Internet in general. But I try really… — Nick Petrie Copy Share Image
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
Early on in life I knew that I was a writer, that I just wanted to write, I love books, I love… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I could tell you stories-if only stories could tell what I have in me to tell. — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.” — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
'The Atlantic' really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer. — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
“No I try and set my books in lots of different locales. Variety is the spice of life!” — Cathy Williams Copy Share Image
There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Every book your read is an opportunity for self-growth and expansion.” — Rachel V Perry Copy Share Image
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
