“When writing feels like jumping a cliff, grab the nearest pen!” — Susan J. McIntire Copy Share Image
What I adore is supreme professionalism. I’m bored by writers who can write only when it’s raining. — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
The first draft often is really fast, and I'd be terribly ashamed if anybody ever saw it. — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
“N.B. – Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.” — W.C. Sellar Copy Share Image
I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Libraries serve the information needs of all of the people in the community — not just the loudest, not just the most… — Judith Krug Copy Share Image
Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it. — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
Because I write intuitively and image-by-image and moment-by-moment, my writing has to be powered by feelings and emotions. — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
Like most new writers, I could only hope that one day one publisher might agree to publish one of my books; I… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Books have literally powered most of my life. Whether as a stress relief when doing hard things or as vacation fodder, they… — Harper Reed Copy Share Image
“When reading a book, one hopes it doesn’t turn into a painful process. Predictable is bad enough. Laborious is acceptable if the… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
I never know what something is going to be until it emerges from the womb and you see the crown of its… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“There are, you see, two ways of reading a book: you either see it as a box with something inside and start… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
'M Train' will take you in and out of dreamscapes and reality and remembrances with prose so spare and matter-of-fact that it… — Wendi McLendon-Covey Copy Share Image
“-You've got a . . . Lot of books, he said at last. -it's a sickness. -Are you . . . Seeing… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
With a novel, you have to have a story. It's much more important to have it matter to the reader what happens… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space. — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I have always felt that the Internet was a more important research tool for a writer than an artist. — Bella Freud Copy Share Image
“MY ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS BECAUSE WHILE I STAND STILL MY VIBRATIONS STILL MOVE YOU” — Qwana Reynolds-Frasier Copy Share Image
I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous. — P. C. Cast Copy Share Image
It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
“What will life be like, some day, once you’re writing full time? Spend hours with that thought.” — Sean Platt Copy Share Image
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life. — Meridel Le Sueur Copy Share Image
No matter how much money I made from writing, I'd keep the bookstore job. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
