“Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit.” — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it. — David Shields Copy Share Image
It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I didn't aspire to write and never considered it as a career option. — Vantile Whitfield Copy Share Image
No book I publish will be perfect, but I need to feel I've taken it as far as I can. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins. — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
“Are there any books of that sort nowadays? The only ones I ever see mentioned in the papers are about married couples… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I am finding it very hard to get my novel started. I suffer from stylistic abscesses; and sentences keep itching without coming… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
If as a child I had written a story, the best story that I could imagine, I would have written as indeed… — Paolo Maldini Copy Share Image
“I'm a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
You want the greatest trick for writing a novel? Here it is: imagine urgently whispering your story into one person's ear -… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
“The authors whose books get published - once accepted as a reclusive breed - are now vetted by publicists to make sure… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons,… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“I’ve often envied those writers in the Western world who can peacefully practice their craft and earn a living thereby… What [the… — KEN SARO WIWA written to PEN Center USA from his prison cell in Nigeria shortly before his execution Copy Share Image
“The writer becomes a superhero every time he or she sits down to write. We must excel ourselves with each new writing… — Rob Parnell Copy Share Image
“So here you are now, ready to attack the first lines of the first page. You prepare to recognize the unmistakable tone… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
M. J. Putney has created true magic with this book, the kind that comes when you curl up in a comfortable armchair… — Catherine Asaro Copy Share Image
“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
The very best of all Merwin: I have been reading William since 1952, and always with joy. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Very few writers of distinction in fact were outstanding as undergraduates. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Life is like a book. You read one page at a time, and hope for a good ending.” — J.B. Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm a decent writer, barely a decent guitar player, and a terrible singer. — Bobby Bones Copy Share Image
I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed. — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
Usually if a scene's really hard to write, I just don't write it. Nothing's coming to mind. — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
I'm not seeking for answers; I just want to tell stories and state my opinion. — Paolo Nutini Copy Share Image
In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other. — Billy Strayhorn Copy Share Image
Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
This is the most powerful thing I can do! I'm going to be a writer. — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
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