I don't write about anything I don't love even if that love sometimes gets all screwed up and tormented. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
As a writer, I don't think it's my responsibility to make a point. I just write and hope there's someone who'll like… — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
Experience in itself wasn’t enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I’d… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“As the death of the writer exaggerates the role of his work, the death of a person exaggerates the role of his… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
“Literature was not born the day when a boy crying “wolf, wolf” came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big… — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
If we are always reading aloud something that is more difficult than children can read themselves then when they come to that… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
The success of 'The Widow' meant there were expectations for the second book from the first word, and it has created a… — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
By college, I had a really grand, preposterous vision of myself as becoming a writer, but I don't think I had the… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“Daemon snatched the yellow packages from my hands. “Oh! Books! You have books!” I laughed as several people waiting in line looked… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
“If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“no writing is a waste of time--no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work.” — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was so little so it just feels like a natural response to any situation emotionally for me… — Gracie Abrams Copy Share Image
“In the real world, writing is not artificially separated into specific discourses. It is blended for effect.” — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
For those who can do it and who keep their nerve, writing for a living still beats most real, grown-up jobs hands… — Terence Blacker Copy Share Image
“Writing was a defeat, it was a humiliation, it was coming face-to-face with yourself and seeing you weren't good enough.” — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation. — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school. — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
It's OK to screw up. For me, this was the big revelation when I was writing my first book, 'In the Woods':… — Tana French Copy Share Image
I see 'Hansel and Gretel' as a breakthrough book for me, and one of the reasons is because I started to apply… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contain multitudes. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Writers (of supernatural fiction), who used to strive for awe and achieve fear, now strive for fear and achieve only disgust.” — David Aylward Copy Share Image
“Agenda-driven novelists don’t often want to bother learning the craft of fiction. They’re just dipping into fiction long enough to disguise their… — Jeff Gerke Copy Share Image
Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“A good editor is like tinsel to a Christmas Tree...they add the perfect amount of sparkle without being gaudy.” — Bobbi Romans Copy Share Image
Above all, have a good time. If you aren’t enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
I try to say one thing with my work: A book is a wonderful place to be. A book is a package,… — Ellen Raskin Copy Share Image
“He who would be a writer, fine, Must take a deal of pains, Must criticize his every line, And mix his ink… — Platt Rogers Spencer Copy Share Image
