“And maybe it was fair; if a book was any good, it was a slap in the face to someone.” — John Irving Copy Share Image
It sounds shameful, but on my best days I write only about three or four hours. — Anne Bernays Copy Share Image
As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write. I'm gonna write the way I wanna write! — Jacqueline Susann Copy Share Image
“Writing is like having your teeth extracted. It only hurts while you're doing it.” — Jason Blacker Copy Share Image
Read every sentence you write out loud. If it sounds boring, kill it. — James Altucher Copy Share Image
'Bleak House' remains a great novel for me, and I love 'David Copperfield.' — Sue Perkins Copy Share Image
Reading without understanding is like swallowing food without chewing. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read… — Madison Pettis Copy Share Image
I think most short story writers, at one time or another, over the course of several books, naturally skirt near the edge… — David Means Copy Share Image
I could never be the kind of writer who went to the set of the movie and fussed and fretted about, 'Oh,… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
'American Gods' was designed to be, if not open-ended, at least a trilogy kind of shape, so there's definitely one more book,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The tremendous efficiency and economy of the book has once again demonstrated itself. It's the world's most patient medium. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
My mother was almost entirely responsible for my cultural education. She took me to the library once a week, and by the… — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
One great aim of revision is to cut out. In the exuberance of composition it is natural to throw in - as… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
“Writing. It’s easy work. The equipment isn’t expensive, and you can pursue this occupation anywhere. You make your own hours, mess around… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
I always write on unlined typing paper and write the first draft in longhand, using cheap Bic pens. I try to write… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
“Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The thing is, Sara, writing's scary. You have to be prepared to go deep…And when your brain's shouting, 'No, no, no, I'm… — Felicity Everett Copy Share Image
Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“While some dismiss the Bible as a dusty old book, I view its pages as portals to adventure. Not only is the… — Margaret Feinberg Copy Share Image
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing. — Rachel Zucker Copy Share Image
When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation. — D. T. Max Copy Share Image
The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25. — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
