I would prefer to write about everything; what else is there? But one must be selective. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“There are few things I like better in life than getting lost in a good book.” — John Grisham Copy Share Image
It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
It can be very lonely and depressing to be a writer, and to be alone in your own head. — Gillian Robespierre Copy Share Image
“When adults read a book, they're two feet away; when children read it, they're right inside it.” — Peggy Rathmann Copy Share Image
Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I tend to write two stories every day, five days a week. It's a real grind. But it also allows me to… — Shaun King Copy Share Image
“Judge not the value of a friend by the number of boy- or girlfriends they helped you get. But by the number… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Writing is a solitary existence, especially if you forget to chat to your friends – sorry, I meant characters.” — Amaya Ellman Copy Share Image
“Readers have some peculiar notions about the status of writers, the most foolish of which is that writers are treated like royalty… — Reed Farrel Coleman Copy Share Image
If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
When you're just starting out, and someone you think is a real storyteller says something good about you, that helps. — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
I use three main tools in writing: instinct, hard work and dumb luck. Dumb luck is missing a train and, while you… — David Massengill Copy Share Image
The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you write a thing you think, 'Oh, this is good', and it's not a modesty or an immodesty thing, you… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The Adderall Diaries is phenomenal. With jittery finesse and a reformed tweaker's eye for detail, Stephen Elliott captures the terrifying, hilarious, heart-strangling… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
There are different reasons why people write: for themselves, or for other writers, or to get prizes, or keeping an audience in… — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
Fortunately, we have writers who very much respect the classic characters and the integrity of the classic characters, that are also terrific… — Bob Bergen Copy Share Image
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