Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
“Is a twist less satisfying if you know it’s coming? Is a twist that you can’t predict symptomatic of bad construction? These… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare… — David Hume Copy Share Image
A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
“I promise you a case of writing paralysis if you think about too many of these tools when you sit down to… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
In TV, writers generally are the show runners, and they have enormous control over everything. In feature films, very often the writer… — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
After a while the business end of writing takes too much of the writing time. Better to pay someone ten percent and… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“People become librarians because they know too much. Their knowledge extends beyond mere categories. They cannot be confined to disciplines. They bring… — Erica Olsen Copy Share Image
It's something that's difficult to explain but I think all writers work this way to some extent, whether we're aware of it… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
There's a lot about being "A Writer" that has nothing to do with writing. That's one thing I've discovered. You've got to… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
It is both revealing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“We do not like the truth because it is simple, we do not want the truth because it is hard, and we… — Pat Walsh Copy Share Image
All writers--all beings--are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
Writing in a journal is just a stall, a waiting game, a way to tell yourself that you're working when you're not,… — Robert Masello Copy Share Image
I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
Once you write a book, you hand it over to the readers, and it's their book then. They're so involved. They ask… — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
“Writers are a strange breed. After all, we hear voices in our heads all the time, and sometimes, we even talk to… — Stevie J. Cole Copy Share Image
“I never have any clue what my next book is going to be about, when the time comes, the book starts pouring… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Stop beating yourself up over all the days you didn’t work on your story. Focus on what you can do today. Sit… — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
I think The Nightingale is my best, most mature, most moving novel, but maybe that's just because I love these characters. I… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
When you have a book out, it's like a period of protracted or concentrated megalomania, and it's really not normal or good… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
“We want splendid books ... books that prove to us that love is at work in the world next to evil, right… — Laurence Cossé Copy Share Image
I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
Some people are writers and don't ever want to be on camera, some people act and not write - I like writing… — Adam Conover Copy Share Image
I've learned you can't write on a computer on a bus. It jiggles too much, especially an Apple. The keyboard jiggles around… — Stephen Stills Copy Share Image
“He had loved the library, and had felt, as a boy, as though it had a kind of sentience, and perhaps loved… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Hicks was examining the paperbacks Maura had culled from the shelves: Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Joe Hill.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I was quite a weird kid because I didn't like getting presents. I don't know why. I just went for books all… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
“And it's time you learnd there's a big difference between your writing and your life. To do it right, your witing takes… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or… — Larry Brooks Copy Share Image
All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical? — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Do you know the best thing about broken hearts?' the librarian asked. I shook my head. 'They can only really break once.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
It's normally in the morning, just playing around. And I'm not saying everything I make is great, but that's what I do.… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
