Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I'm writing about. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It's more fun to write stuff when you know someone's going to nail it. — Riki Lindhome Copy Share Image
“My life as well as my writing are guided by creed in lieu of clichés Carl Henegan” — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
I'm a middle-class, middle-brow novelist. And that's it. It amuses me. — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters. — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand. — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
“Kafka noted in a letter to his friend Oskar Pollak that “some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s… — David Mikics Copy Share Image
One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'. — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
That's all you have to ask from yourself writing a book. That it's the best you can do and that you did… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“I have learned one lesson as a writer...keep writing and never throw any notes away. Written parts that can't be used today...may… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
I am compulsive about writing, I need to do it the way I need sleep and exercise and food and sex; I… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“When an idea suddenly appears I feel compelled to get it on paper and I keep writing until the flame disappears. Love… — Lee Bumbicka Copy Share Image
If you think about becoming a writer, that's just really one of the big dreams I had. It's really important to have… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she walked away from thinking,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Your problem is that you’re more like an empty book and you’re waiting on someone else to write your pages for you.… — Garry Crystal Copy Share Image
When I'm late it matters, but when everybody else is late it doesn't matter... If that's the rule then just write it… — Brian Posehn Copy Share Image
“You can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom… — Antonio Muñoz Molina Copy Share Image
“I know that there will always be someone who won't get the stories, or who won't like them. You cannot please everyone,… — Jennifer Varnadore Copy Share Image
Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
“Books are Windows of Enchantment - through them we can see - the moving spectacle of life: the farce, the tragedy. Every… — Patience Strong Copy Share Image
I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books. — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
The downside of word processing - it's quite possible to never end a work-in-progress. — Jim Starlin Copy Share Image
The writer who cares about usage must always know the quick from the dead. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“I will always love being a writer. There is nothing greater than that.” — Millicent Ashby Copy Share Image
I have only written what I experienced, what I saw, what I learned first-hand. — Mohamedou Ould Slahi Copy Share Image
Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
She could smell the pages. She could almost taste the words as they stacked up around her. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“There are only three things I do. I read. I write. And I fart glitter.” — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
