I write all day every day, so when I feel unproductive, it magnifies everything else. — Blake Butler Copy Share Image
“The way to write a book is the application of the seat of one's pants to the seat of one's chair” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I went to someone for therapy, I wouldn't be a writer...I would just be well adjusted. — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about. — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
“i'd hate to read all these books...that much reading could put your eyes out.” — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
You spend so much time as a writer telling straight and linear stories. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I will read anything at all by Kate Atkinson, Daniel Woodrell, and William Kennedy, who are all fearless. — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
“Some books that were rejected multiple times, but are now famous, are J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and Beatrice… — Adam Anderson Copy Share Image
“The best things about writing are the freedom to please yourself creatively, personal accomplishment and the journey of personal growth. The worst… — Ron Houston Copy Share Image
Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
There's two identity markers I'm sure of, and one is, I'm Jewish. And the other is, I'm a writer. There's just no… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop… — George Sand Copy Share Image
My reading practice is one reason I mostly don't read electronically. Different books are in different rooms of my house, and one… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“I make books because I love them as objects; because I want to put the pictures and the words together, because I… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
Ordinarily my mom just sunk deeper into her corner of the couch and ignored it. She had succesfully ignored a quarter of… — Haven Kimmel Copy Share Image
The things that have always drawn me to the craft of writing is character, it's story, it's something that becomes like a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“But a good novel is first of all an event; as distinguished from the continuous rush of many sensations and the messy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity.… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
“...writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill.… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
In the best nonfiction, it seems to me, you're always made aware that you are being engaged with a supple mind at… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“The public library contains multitudes. And each person who visits contains multitudes as well. Each of us is a library of thoughts,… — Josh Hanagarne Copy Share Image
I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions. — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
“If you're the 'brilliant writer' in the room, you're in the wrong writers' room.” — Don Roff Copy Share Image
“Coraline had watched all the videos. She was bored with her toys, and she'd read all her books.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've learned to allow myself the room to fall in love with what I'm writing. — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I had no way to stop . I did not write Fahrenheit 451, it wrote me.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I hate feeling too complacent when I write. I like to be solving new problems. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us.” — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The trick to writer's block is to sack up and write through it, you see. — Jeph Jacques Copy Share Image
