If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening. — Sting Copy Share Image
“The Writers curse We have to write We have no choice We have stories to TELL” — Paul Barrell Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of writers that can get away with not being gifted with words. — Evanna Lynch Copy Share Image
Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read. — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“The only day you should never write and achieve your goals is when the day ends with the letter y.” — Onyi Anyado Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I just put off the writing until later in the day, but now I write early every morning… — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying. I was 4 or 5 or… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve'. Whether my answers are any good or… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, Sir Kevin, one… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“There are those who cannot imagine a world without birds; there are those who cannot imagine a world without water; but in… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you are writing, and aren't writing particularly well.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
a writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold,… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
I think the term "artist's novel" for me has referred to writing which supports an art practice or a more specifically a… — Jill Magid Copy Share Image
Nothing ensures the success of the child more in the society than being read to from infancy to young adulthood. Reading books… — Anita Silvey Copy Share Image
It seems to me that literature is giving way a little bit to the immediacy of other diversions, other forms of entertainment.… — James Salter Copy Share Image
I mean, when I was young I could write all through the night and I loved to work late into the night.… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality -… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The writing life requires courage, patience, persistence, empathy, openness, and the ability to deal with rejection. It requires the willingness to be… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I know when it comes to TV, the writer is king, but to me, the filmmaker is king. — Sam Esmail Copy Share Image
My parents came to visit every two months and brought plenty of books. — Mathias Rust Copy Share Image
I am a disciplined person. When I am writing, I write for 7-8 hours. — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
“You know your book is good when you have to put it down just so you can breathe.” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components, — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to write about a nanny, but it was difficult for me to find a narrative rhythm. — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
I can't bear to be on a train without a book", she announced. " It's a form of self-defence in a way" . — John Boyne Copy Share Image
The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
A writer takes his pen. To write the words again. That all in love is fair. — Matt Belsante Copy Share Image
“Writing is easy. Writing is hard. It's a breeze and a struggle, just like life.” — Dennis R. Miller Copy Share Image
