“What is the essence of the art of writing? Part One: Have something to say. Part Two: Say it well.” — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“I think, for the writer, rather as for the priest, there isn't such a thing as success.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do. — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write. — Ben Mezrich Copy Share Image
When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel. — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I'm a horizontal writer. I think better when I'm lying… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I write - though perhaps it sounds pretentious to say so - to make a clearing in the wilderness, to find out… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
When you're writing stuff that's already clotted with neologisms and trying to get across fairly abstruse concepts, you're already putting a heavy… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Every library answers a twofold need, which is often also a twofold obsession: that of conserving certain objects (books) and that of… — Georges Perec Copy Share Image
I don't have anything to prove as a writer anymore. I write about Panera Bread or Red Lobster or Satan or Richard… — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
“Some of the best books published every year are penned by talented writers whose identity the public will never know.” — Richard Castle Copy Share Image
Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity, and insight.… — Carolyn Cooke Copy Share Image
Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
My routine is to create activities for myself unrelated to writing that allow little time for writing. This means that when I… — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
“Choosing a book is so gratifying, it’s worth dragging out the process, starting even before finishing the current one. As the final… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
I finished my first novel - it was around 300 pages long - when I was 16. Wrote one more before I… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
“The writer is a kind of hawk; he goes round in the skies, constantly looking with his sharp eyes for the character… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
We live in a cluttered culture, a culture of information in which even our computers can't tell us what's worth knowing and… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Your first attempt will be terrible… Remember that everything great you see started out as someone else's bad first draft… Whenever someone… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
