“I think that the direction in which a writer should look is around.” — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“Writing is what happens when the words in your head are overpowered by the words in your heart.” — J.L. Bond Copy Share Image
As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Writing lets other people know just how much fun it is in your head...” — William Petersen Copy Share Image
“Writing is the consolation prize you are given when you don't get the thing you want the most.” — Lang leav Copy Share Image
I always describe writing a story as throwing bowling pins in the air and then catching them. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Im merely a dreamer, and then a writer, and my happiest moments are when I'm a reader. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Writing is a journey of discovery because until you start, you never know what will happen, and you can be surprised by… — Mini Grey Copy Share Image
The truth is, my life was made infinitely more difficult because I didn't read any books. But I didn't read any books.… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
“It is very rarely that a middle-aged man finds an author who gives him, what he knew so often in his teens… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Under the word refuge , I found this definition: "Small structure high in the mountains where climbers can spend the night." In… — Jacques Poulin Copy Share Image
I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
I have only one bit of advice to beginning writers: be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Play my own game. You can read all the books, but you have to listen to your intuition and not do everything… — Jennifer Tilly Copy Share Image
The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“By educating me at home, my parents were able to give me individualized attention without the usual distractions that kids in regular… — Colin Nissan Copy Share Image
You're not getting the joy out of literature that it gave you. This is the danger of what we do. Look at… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
“Mom taught me not to look away from the worst but to believe that we can all do better. She never wavered… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
You know how some people are upwardly mobile? I'm sort of downwardly mobile in the publishing world, because of my sales figures… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been slightly obsessed with paper and notebooks. Among my most precious possessions is a small light-blue, breviary-sized volume - four-and-a-half inches… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness. — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
“You write your first draft with your heart, and you rewrite with your head.” — James Ellison Copy Share Image
When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
There's always an element of truth to what I write because that's why I write. — Lzzy Hale Copy Share Image
All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things. — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll see something to the end of it because I want the story. — Molly Gordon Copy Share Image
The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
My books are not generic. You know when you're reading a Joy Fielding book. — Joy Fielding Copy Share Image
“It was literature in its finest sense, since it made Unk courageous, watchful, and secretly free.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I think that I have every right to write a book. I think I'm interesting. I have perspective about me. — Judy Garland Copy Share Image
