I write a lot in my head. I've never been driven to write things down. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
When you're writing, you're demented, alone, and full of doubt. It feels dangerous. — Joan Juliet Buck Copy Share Image
“those who do read fiction are better able to understand the emotions of others.” — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's interesting to see what people who have too much control need to do to write freely. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
I started writing, but now I have too much to write about. - Kalyani Rajalingham — Kalyani Rajalingham Copy Share Image
“The instinctive preference was to read rather than to act. No wonder our actual lives were more or less a shambles” — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Steve Yarbrough is a masterful storyteller-one of our finest-and Safe from the Neighbors is a masterpiece. . . . This is a spellbinding, powerful novel. — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
I write in cafes, never at home. I cannot focus at home, am forever getting off my chair to do other things.… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
Montaigne simply turns his mind loose and writes whatever he feels like writing. Mostly, he wants to say that reason is not… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
“People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
When I start writing, the first line might come from reality, but the second and the third one, I have to write… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the obligations, their obligations as teachers. We want them to know… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Annie Dillard was a pioneer in her Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1974. Among other notable examples… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“In a way, an autobiography seems to me like a household book of accounts – what has been acquired, to what purpose… — Elizabeth Jane Howard Copy Share Image
When the babies were very young, I found it difficult to write. I told myself each time that it would be different,… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
It's so easy to get into the same routine. A novel every two years; perhaps, improving technique. But I'm not interested in… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
He that revels in a well-chosen library has inumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the rules of writing get in the way of a good story told.” — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
Death, death. Now I won't be able to write my beautiful memoirs. — Joachim von Ribbentrop Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enable you to live. — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood. — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“I collect new books the way my girlfriends buy designer handbags.” — Jennifer Kaufman & Karen Mack Copy Share Image
“... like a cat that crawls onto the page when you're trying to read.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away. — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
