As a writer, there are times when you have something to say, and yet no particular 'hook' upon which to hang the… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
As writers, we live very much in our own minds much of the time, buzzing in our unconscious spaces as we go… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make… — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
Siren voices tell me, 'You don't have to keep going on.' And then you think, 'I'm a writer. What do I do?… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“a closed book is a darkness anyone can enter, not a cary darkness like a basement or a storm, but a comforting… — Jenny Hubbard Copy Share Image
I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
I feel better in my mind because I'm doing what God made me to do. He said, 'Go write books, Steve, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I invite you, wholeheartedly, to read books that remind you of your highest self and emancipate you from mental slavery or false… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
“In college I retreated to the library. I have always loved libraries - the quiet, the smell, the expectation of imminent discovery.… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
The ideas always have to be in service of the story. And that's what Scott and the writers did - they weren't… — Adam Frank Copy Share Image
I believe the personal essay is underrated for both writer and reader. It affords the writer great freedom: to speak personally yet… — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
“These things matter. It’s tedious, I know. Any writer worth his weight in pulp would by now have set the hero along… — Gordon Highland Copy Share Image
There are few writers who, if they publish anything, I am going to buy it: Ian McEwan, Scott Turow, Pat Conroy -… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I also want to do stories that I think are not brought to television that often that our community talks about. — Ed Gordon Copy Share Image
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine.… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“We were supposed to be studying literature together. Instead I wanted to take her off the shelf, crack her open, and read… — Kendall Ryan Copy Share Image
When someone's a writer, it's very creative and moody, and you think of someone walking around the office in pajamas thinking of… — Stephanie Savage Copy Share Image
“Writers, even unpublished writers, have a tendency not to notice what’s going on around them when they are the center of attention.” — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
“A book, a good chair, my pipe, and a good bed to go to when night falls, and I'm as happy as… — Warren Lewis Copy Share Image
If you ask me, Now, is it your best book? I would say, I don't really know. I wouldn't even want to… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Writing can be really lonely, and I find that bit difficult. I'd rather be around my people, getting ideas. — Daniel Kaluuya Copy Share Image
Most books are about aspects of human knowledge - Few people write books about human ignorance, despite the fact that there would… — Piero Scaruffi Copy Share Image
To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written. — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
I'd been writing fiction for 50 years, since I was 19. And when you write fiction, it becomes a way of thinking:… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it. — Franklin P. Jones Copy Share Image
“Writers Are Insane. For months we are lone wolves locked in our caves. Then overnight we become publicity hounds. It's a schizophrenic… — Robert Mykle Copy Share Image
I posted the first three chapters and I had enough people say that chapter two was dragging that I cut it out… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
people in general are totally unable to detach the personality of a writer from the products of his thinking. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which are created… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
What is true for book publishing is true for civilization: the books that survive the test of time are humanity's backlist, our… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
“I have at all times written my writings with my whole heart and soul: I do not know what purely intellectual problems… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Books change us. They excite us, they compel us to question, to fight, to believe in the possibility of the improbable; they… — T.S. Tate Copy Share Image
There is no editor or agent or person with a sack of money that will magically come down and give you motivation… — Charles Forsman Copy Share Image
“Our relation to books is a shadowy space haunted by the ghosts of memory, and the real value of books lies in… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
Maybe you could even think 100,000 people are inside each human being. And you drop a novel on that person, and a… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I'm an old school actor in the sense. More and more now, I play myself as I get older. Even as a… — Jim Piddock Copy Share Image
Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it, putting words on paper that have never been… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
