I love Dave Eggers. I hate Dave Eggers. If I could become any other living writer, I would answer faster than anyone… — James Bernard Frost Copy Share Image
I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
My life in general, orderly or not, it allows me more freedom in my own writing. Sometimes I wonder, though - I… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
Like skateboarders, writers live by rejection; like writers, any skater worth his salt must have the single-minded tenacity of a wiener dog. — Bret Anthony Johnston Copy Share Image
“After publishing a book, start writing the next. And repeat. Don't get hung up on overmarketing the books, focus more on getting… — Crissi Langwell Copy Share Image
Can fiction teach us? Absolutely. Fiction has the power to illustrate place, era, and atmosphere in vivid detail. But it is not… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“The mind of the writer invite readers to new worlds, where their darkest fears and greatest joys explode into a tapestry of… — David Smith Copy Share Image
“If I have to wait, I read; if I wake in the night, I feel along the shelf for a book. Swelling,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Appealing to the five senses is the feature that will always set writing apart from the visual media. A good writer will… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
In fiction you can make up everything to create the feeling. You can manufacture a story with whatever tools you want. With… — Chelsea Martin Copy Share Image
“No one can learn to love by following a manual and no one can learn to write by following a course. I'm… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The Circle... Ted Dekker is my inspiration, my favorite author, and my hero, so it should come as no surprise that my… — Luke Alistar Copy Share Image
When we got around to books, I was finally set, as our minister would say, on solid ground. I gorged on books.… — Lorene Cary Copy Share Image
“That's what a good book does-it puts readers on their knees. It makes you want to believe in a world you just… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“I had been reading children's books all my life and saw them not as minor amusements but as part of the whole… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I really spend as long as I can sketching everything out and working on the structure before I sit down to type… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
It's nice being married to someone who likes to read because you can indulge in geeky conversations about books. — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books. — Jackie French Copy Share Image
Nothing I force myself to write about ever turns out well, and so I've learned to wait for the voice, the incident,… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Victoria Roberts spins an exciting Highland tale of intrigue, betrayal, and love with a braw Highland hero and strong English heroine any… — Hannah Howell Copy Share Image
Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The greatest compliment I get about my writing is when people say, 'How did you know so much about me?' And of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon,… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Writing is like pulling your hair out. You have nothing, and you can't think of anything, but you have to think of… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the… — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
“How can you keep up with her, this woman who is always reading another book besides the one before her eyes, a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Life is like a Book of 3 Pages. 1st page is Birth And Last page is Death . Centre page is Empty… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Because I am kind of distracted, I don't tend to sit at my desk 9 to 5. It can be two hours… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them. — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
“Writing is the best. The writer has the real power. You can create something and the world will be forever indebted to… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable… — Murong Xuecun Copy Share Image
Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen. — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind… — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
I was a lot younger - when I wrote Water Lilies. I was like 26. It felt so natural to write about adolescence. — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
As adults, we've seen so much before that we often turn the pages of a picture book without really looking. Young children… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
