Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three. — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked. — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“The only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you. —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM” — Wendy Wax Copy Share Image
It can be depressing when no one takes interest, and a lack of response makes the writer question why theyre writing at… — Lizz Clements Copy Share Image
I've always liked an easygoing, colloquial style. I like the kind of reviewer who is essentially a fellow reader, an enthusiast, a… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
“Maybe authors shouldn't write more than one or two books. Maybe you just keep writing the same book over and over anyway.” — Adam Langer Copy Share Image
“The old lady goes back to her paperback (it's Fifty Shades of Grey, and not her first trip through it, from the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm a full-time writer, which means I have the entire day to get my work done. But that can also be bad,… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I'm quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I've coined a rather… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
I know well enough that very few people who are supposedly interested in writing are interested in writing well. They are interested… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Those of us who obsess over every word and action are constantly recalling past events, but that doesn't make them any less… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any… — Ben Schwartz Copy Share Image
If I wanted to curse you out, I would write everything I wanted to say to you in my diary, and it… — Claressa Shields Copy Share Image
Imagine (if you dare) a whimsical marriage of Lord Dunsany and S.J. Perelman, and you have something approaching the tales of Rhys… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you sit down to write, you have to be prepared to strip all of those voices away, all of the censors… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
“I couldn't read SAY MY NAME immediately. There was no Larry for me but it was far too close to the bones… — Rosalinda Copy Share Image
When you write a book, and you argue a problem is complicated and multidimensional, it's very easy to read a slice of… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
I think as a writer, it's important to show the other part of being gay, not only the sex part. — Luis Negron Copy Share Image
Writing is the process of asking the next logical question. — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel. — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
I've gotten used to spending more time with heavily narrative stories. — Joshuah Bearman Copy Share Image
I've been in various roles in TV - writer, producer, associate director. — Smriti Irani Copy Share Image
“We all live our lives, but a reader lives a hundred other lives.” — George RR Martin Copy Share Image
To keep something around just because it is already on the books, I think, is wrong. — Sam Graves Copy Share Image
The Chinese have a habit of reading. Many families regard books as the most valuable family asset. — Li Yuanchao Copy Share Image
Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, after all, if not other selves? — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“A kind of losing loadum is their game, Where the worst writer has the greatest fame.” — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
“A great book is a thing of mystery and beauty; it has the power to move you.” — Neil Leckman Copy Share Image
“Chapters - Life has many different chapters for us. One bad chapter doesn’t mean the end of the book.” — Edenia Archuleta Copy Share Image
