“Writing is a defence against boredom, but it's also a cure for melancholy.” — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
I'm always writing from some difficult place and seeing how the character survives... or doesn't. — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
“Being a writer is like standing naked in the High Street hoping people won't find you ridiculous.” — Graham Storrs Copy Share Image
“Mary Connealy is a Carol Award winner and a RITA Award finalist. An author,” — Mary Connealy Copy Share Image
“Writing is an amazing thing. Because paper doesn't tell you to shut up, never ever EVER.” — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
I'm a workmanlike writer. I show up every day and treat it like a job. The old rule that writing is like… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“Everybody talks about being a writer, angel. If every novel conceived on a bar stool made it into print, there wood not… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
I was reading at a third-grade level until the age of 30 before I made the decision that I was going to… — Diamond Dallas Page Copy Share Image
I still find it difficult to cope with the solitude of writing. I often crave the feedback of working with a team. — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“There are adventures of the spirit and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. One need never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I remember I had a copy of 'David Copperfield' that I lugged around at primary school. I started reading it when I… — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“As long as I have questions and no answers I’ll keep on writing. How do you start at the beginning, if things… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When you read a great book at one point in your life then in another part of your life, when you read… — Keith David Copy Share Image
The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone. — Jennifer Niven Copy Share Image
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.” — Nicholaa Spencer Copy Share Image
I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you. — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
“Never give more time to reading a book than to reflecting upon its contents.” — Frank Morton McMurry Copy Share Image
The first two chapters of any first draft generally need to be cut. — Aprilynne Pike Copy Share Image
Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I always have had a slightly jaundiced view about people who promote books about themselves. — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
The pleasure for me is in the writing process, which has its own challenges. — Thiagarajan Kumararaja Copy Share Image
“A paperback book was wrapped around Barney's massive index finger as he held his place.” — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
“I am but little disposed to put things in writing. One almost always regrets doing so.” — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
