I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I first told the idea to an editor I had met who, after reading one of my novels for adults that was… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“The library spilled onto the floor and into the other rooms. Some books held up wobbly tables, others were literally swept under… — Michael Buckley Copy Share Image
“The writer’s life requires courage, patience, empathy, openness. It requires the ability to be alone with oneself. Gentle with oneself. To be… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I skip the introduction. If the book goes in the trash, I want it to go because of my thoughts on it,… — James Frey Copy Share Image
A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry. — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“But I will take a page from the book of the Snow Scout leader, and skip ahead to the next interesting thing… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult, and this means, I think,… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
A scientist with a poet's command of language, Cristina Eisenberg writes with precision and passion . . . takes her reader on… — Elizabeth Cunningham Copy Share Image
I didn't go to graduate school, where all the important writers seemed to be getting their start. I didn't pursue getting published… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing more important than literary merit, and that’s why I not only created an award—the Julius Caesar Author of the Year… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“If reason be judge, no writer has produced such inconsistent characters as nature herself has. It must call for no small sagacity… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The only process that comes close to the process of writing a whole book, in my experience, is childbirth. There is this… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
“The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained form actual life is… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can't say I find that to be… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“I'm visualizing the letters that make up your name, but my brain has written it in Courier and the font size is… — Chelsea Martin Copy Share Image
As a writer, I think your first job is to find a subject that you think you and others will find inherently… — Stuart Blumberg Copy Share Image
“I wanted to read all these books, but I would have to have been in a rest home or something to do… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
My life has been such a blur since I was 18, 19 years old. I haven't even had time to contemplate my… — Grant Achatz Copy Share Image
I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“...maybe great books were coiled within him like springs, books that could have separated inside from outside.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough? — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“From my writer's workshop, "Know when it's time to put everything you've got on the page. Then, rip open a vein and… — Heather Burch Copy Share Image
I write about what worries me and, hopefully, things worry me a little bit earlier than they do some other people, purely… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
“Long into my career I harbored a secret sense that thinking and reading and writing, as much as I loved them, did… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
There's a book called 'Where The Wild Things Are,' by American writer Maurice Sendak... it really is the most sublime book. It's… — Graeme Base Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was 9. My mother told me it was before that, but that was the first I remember. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have and give yourself… — Rachel Johnson Copy Share Image
I am so sick of being exhorted, as a writer, to improve the world by representing it in a more hopeful way. — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories.… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
If I had to read only one author, it would be Gabriel Garcia Marquez because I love the mystical, magical quality of… — Tory Burch Copy Share Image
“In that moment, Dan was reminded why he wanted to write in the first place. It was the same reason anybody does… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
