“Books are our best possessions in life, they are our immortality.” — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one. — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think perhaps the greatest book ever written was Ulysses by James Joyce. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I despise writing in general, but yeah, I love writing the stuff that I direct. — Max Winkler Copy Share Image
You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer. — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
If I can write it, I can cope. And I've been writing many books, but in every book, I try to explore… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“What will happen to those who stone the prophets and persecute the masters? His fate is written in flaming letters on each… — Frank Harris Copy Share Image
“All writers pen sad stories to garner sympathy, writing is after all for the abandoned of the society: the ink-leech, spewing black… — APORVAKALA Copy Share Image
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn't it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
I love to write. I write everything across the board - kids' stories and novels and scripts. I actually would like to… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Writing becomes a really good creative outlet when you're sitting there and feeling creatively frustrated or stilted, but also you then get… — Zoe Lister-Jones Copy Share Image
“When it was time to write, and he took his pen in his hand, he never thought of consequences; he thought of… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“And I would not blame you if you still asked, Why bother to make contact with kindred spirits you never see and… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I often meet frustrated young writers who say they've only got so far and just can't finish a book. Even if you… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
“Writers just play out their fantasies in their books. They are often very unstable, tricky people, Bertie. Writers are usually very bad… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Being known as a writer did change the relationships I had with directors. The rap on actors is that they always want… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
“Today is your wright-time. Anything worth writing will be, or has been written already. A great story chooses its writer lest no… — Amah Lambert Copy Share Image
Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
“(from chapter 29, "Write In a Book What You See") "heuristic writing - writing to explore and discover what I didn't know.… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
How can you not care?" "Practice," Magnus said, looking back to his book and turning the page. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I'm not as good a writer as some, but I'm not bad as most either.” — Jonathan Heatt Copy Share Image
“knowing now that the job of writing was as much about removing words as adding them,” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Shut up and write. Don't talk about writing, just physically do it. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists. — Adrian McKinty Copy Share Image
No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“There is no lonelier man than a writer when he's writing, except the suicide.” — Hemingway, Ernest Copy Share Image
The two years I spent solely writing for other people kind of took me away from myself. — LP Copy Share Image
The essence of a novelist is to invent things and speak the truth, at the same time. — Jaume Cabre Copy Share Image
We go to literature because it shows us some set of humane values. It is showing us how to live. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
