George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing. — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“This first book’s for everyone, though almost no one wants it or would know how to read it.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
I know it's a cliché to say I write for myself, but I write for myself. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play; — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“I write because words swim around in my head like unruly tadpoles until I do” — Maureen Tuohy Copy Share Image
To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul,… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
Life a book that we are not allowed to read before living, but only to anticipate what is written one, three, maybe… — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
“It's not Jane Austen, it's not Henry James. But this writer, or writers, well, they're pretty damn good too.” — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
“Make me tell you something else about reading. You see this? Every time you open this you get free. Freeness up in… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope,… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness,… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I don't really think that writers, even great writers, are prophets, or sages, or Messiah-like figures; writing is a lonely, sedentary occupation… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn't really start to read well until high school. I never… — Lauren Tarshis Copy Share Image
Combine a left-leaning upbringing with a family with direct experience of the Holocaust and someone with aspirations to write and I guess,… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
“Quite amazing how determined kings and emperors have been to destroy books. But civilization is built on such desecrations, is it not?… — Ross King Copy Share Image
Now some people when they sit down to write and nothing special comes, no good ideas, are so frightened that they drink… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“I loved it so much I was sorry to finish it. I closed the book and shocked myself by thinking, This is… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape. — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
“I know I am a writer because until I’m writing I don’t know what I know.” — Wayson Choy Copy Share Image
Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows. — George Frideric Handel Copy Share Image
I number my drafts, and by the time a book is done, I'll have 75 or 80 drafts of some sections. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another. — Irving Thalberg Copy Share Image
“Fiction means never letting the pure truth get in the way of a good story.” — Nathaniel Robert Winters Copy Share Image
Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity.” — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
