I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself. — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of writer that, once I get into writing mode in my brain, I'm non-stop. — Natalie Prass Copy Share Image
“Kalo nggak nulis, ya baca. Kalo nggak baca, ya nonton film saja lah.” — Sylvia L'Namira Copy Share Image
I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life. — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
I eventually want to do writing on all the films, but not necessarily to be the writer. Writing is a painful, painful… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
“Good characters make you feel like you have new friends, don’t they? You have to re-read the books just to visit with… — Shawn L. Bird Copy Share Image
I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“A lot of help she was. Weren't witches supposed to have power? If you asked me Noel seemed more like a glorified… — Tara A. Fuller Copy Share Image
Jayne Anne Phillips . . . is at the height of her powers in Lark and Termite. . . . This is… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
“The privilege is not writing a novel, it's to have someone read it. When you look at it that way, you realize… — Javier A. Robayo Copy Share Image
“To be a writer and know the pain of artistic block is to know real frustration (though it's not quite as bad… — John D. Rhodes Copy Share Image
“If a story seems too random, or perhaps too brilliant, for a "madman" to have conceived of it himself, then consider that… — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
As a creator of character his peculiarity is that he creates wherever his eyes rest ... With such a power at his… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
For the kind of places I've written for and the kind of writing that I've done, the general way to think about… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
I feel with writing, so much of the time, I don't know how to tap in and be spontaneous and alive on… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
So writing is not just writing. It is also having a relationship with other writers. And don't be jealous, especially secretly. That's… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
It’s being ready to accept rejection. You can work on a book for two years and get it published, and it’s like… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Writing is the main gig and teaching and performing are sidelines, an excuse for not writing more. Working on a novel and… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“I am a reader. A reader isn’t someone who just likes to read, but someone who feels such a strong attachment to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers. — Frank Harris Copy Share Image
Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Remember, you’re allocating time to write, not finding time to write.” — Paul J. Silvia Copy Share Image
Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love. — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece. — Jan Garbarek Copy Share Image
“I vow I shall give all my very best books to the underprivileged, once I have read them” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I wrote three books, I had three greenhouses. It seemed to me to be very satisfactory. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When all my kids were at home, I used to write from midnight onwards. — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp. — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
