I'm a humor writer, so I don't always present myself in the best light. — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process--it is, after all, black magic. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
For a successful writer, the secret is to have many irons in the fire. Write the next thing. — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
I don't know how I do it, but I've written about everything. I've written about my shoes. — Lewis Grizzard Copy Share Image
Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written… — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my… — Nikki Grimes Copy Share Image
For me, choosing between fiction and nonfiction is really only about picking the right tool for the job. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
If there is any other way.To break the cycle and change that part.Reverse the pages, chapter and stories. Ill let you barrow… — Louaiq8 Copy Share Image
A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
There’s an assumption that if someone writes in the first person it’s self-indulgent and self-regarding. I just look at it as a… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I like the freedom of novels. With the memoirs, I always had to keep to the facts. I like that with novels,… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
It's certainly a cliche to remark that a nonfiction book 'reads just like a novel,' but in the case of Jonathan Eig's… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
In order to have a literature, a nation must live, not merely on the practical, but on the moral and spiritual plane… — Vissarion Belinsky Copy Share Image
We write to understand our deepest secrets to ourselves, to understand. We write in an outpouring of love. We write in secret,… — Sophy Burnham Copy Share Image
Of all the writers I have read, Vladimir Nabokov has made the biggest impression on me because he, despite living through the… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
“Writing is the place where I can be as bold and compassionate and wise as I choose.” — Richard Bowes Copy Share Image
I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table. — Patrick White Copy Share Image
Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I find writing really hard, but then, every author I know finds writing really hard work. — Nicola Cornick Copy Share Image
This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
