When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've never really understood that whole thing of writers avoiding other writers' novels while they're working on their own. — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
I have to have a story I really want to tell, and then it makes sense to put things out there. So… — Zoya Akhtar Copy Share Image
“Add books to your circle of friends: they will enrich your life; take you places you’ve never been; give you perspective you… — J Tan Copy Share Image
“It is our hope that writing releases us. Instead maybe it deepens the echo. We call out to our past and the… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions;… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you –… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“Interview on The Skiffy and Fanty Show 2010. In response to query that young adults may not be open to the nuances/realism… — Celine Kiernan Copy Share Image
We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave… — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
“... one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
(The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all I’m writing about is me. It… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I think I got serious about writing in the late '90s. The first stuff I wrote was terrible and got rejected, but… — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
Life is like a novel and every day is a new page so… if 1 page is sad next will be happy.so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I give myself over to a good novel, I surrender to the truths fashioned from one writer's heart, mind and soul.… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“Books most certainly don't write themselves, but life does. When in doubt about what to write, use your own life.” — Solomon Woytowich Copy Share Image
My test for writing is always, is this fun or does it feel like a job? Is it moving me? Or am… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
When people, women included, hear that you are writing, they assume that it is simply a hobby to fill in the time… — Rachel Billington Copy Share Image
“Writers need their writing; they need their imaginary worlds in order to find piece in, or make sense of, the real world.” — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
On Saturdays, I get up early, spread out my notes from the week on the kitchen table, and create stories from them. — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I write on scraps of paper. I do it every other day. I write about people's lives or how people look or… — Tommy Wiseau Copy Share Image
“I read a lot of bad books- books so bad that they aren't even published,which is quite a feat, when you consider… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
The conventional wisdom is that authors get only one chance in this world. If your first novel doesn't sell, publishers and bookstores… — Jeff Giles Copy Share Image
I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
There must be every kind of books in your library. The most beautiful gardens are those with many different flowers, with all… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it… — Janna Malamud Smith Copy Share Image
“That, indeed, the Home Front is something of a fiction and lie, designed, not too subtly, to draw them apart, to subvert… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book. — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
“The fear of loving a dog, is knowing one day they’ll be gone and you could never find eyes that express all… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
Some will think your writing is genius. Some will think it juvenile. What's important is that you, the writer, are satisfied with… — D Michael Hardy Copy Share Image
“A book is a vacation for the mind. My books will take you inside my mind, so feel free to make yourself… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“But she did have to do something creative, even if it was just some little thing, because she was not writing, and… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
