In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story. — George Barr McCutcheon Copy Share Image
“The glory of fiction is in its falseness, but the impact of fiction is found in its painful reality.” — R.W.K. Clark Copy Share Image
“Write what you dream, shoot what you can afford, edit what you get.” — Jason Beckwith Copy Share Image
I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As… — Brian Lumley Copy Share Image
When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to… — Don Roff Copy Share Image
I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy,… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
“you would know all this if you had troubled to read the book that Maester Kedry gave you.” “It had no pictures.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“There wasn’t much left at the end of the month for her favorite luxuries—great clothes and hardback books, but she didn’t mind.… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
“Write your heart out, give it your all, and proceed to make emotions crawl over the place for the power that is… — Karlie Calderon Copy Share Image
If a novelist tells you something she knows or thinks, and you believe her, that is not because either of you think… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Writing one's first novel, getting it sold, and shepherding it through the labyrinths of editing, production, marketing, journalism, and social media is… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Words only write your words if you dont your heart will fall in drop it, dont let it drop leave it all… — Natalya Johnson Copy Share Image
All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Writing consist of everything. whether your writing is of riddles, rimes, prose, trivial, general, of thought, or of feeling. indiscretions you've done… — Michael Stuckey Copy Share Image
Paul Robeson was an athlete, Rutgers valedictorian, lawyer, writer, actor in movies and plays, great voice - a black male doing it… — Dhani Jones Copy Share Image
Writing advice is not the product of an equation. "If you do X, then Y will occur" is false in this instance.… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
I love the book. I love the feel of a book in my hands, the compactness of it, the shape, the size.… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
“My message will be very clear; it is that I think we have to continue to read novels. Because I think that… — Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio Copy Share Image
Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention.The professional writer… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip. — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
It isn't often that a writer of superlative skills knows enough about flying to write well about it. — Samuel Hynes Copy Share Image
“Facing a wall when you write really aids your concentration.” — Peter Straub (Author Copy Share Image
“My fiction-writing career owes it start to the bad navigation of an 18th century pirate. For it was” — Paul Kemprecos Copy Share Image
I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up. — Joss Stone Copy Share Image
“When I write I feel like I can breathe. It’s like yoga for the brain.” — Elise Stokes Copy Share Image
As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization... …Books are humanity in print. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“The weight of absence is as much a feature of any library as the constriction of order and space.” — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
