“One of the hardest concepts for students to grasp or accept about writing is the time that it takes to make something… — Cynthia D. Urbanski Copy Share Image
I feel so lucky and so privileged that I like writing for myself. Like, I don't have to wait for somebody to… — Sasheer Zamata Copy Share Image
“Author says writing about Jesus is difficult because it is like writing about a friend "who is still liable to surprise us.” — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
In the immediate aftermath of the separation I just wrote and wrote and wrote. And wrote and wrote and wrote. Thank God… — Pegi Young Copy Share Image
To write, I think it is very important to read. The more you read, the more you know the techniques of writing. — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
I got my Bachelor's degree in nursing and worked nine years - even taught nursing in a college - before I stopped… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Let go of the idea that somehow you can outsmart a first draft. Because I have never met anybody who can. — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, one of things you learn is God lives in specificity. You know, human kindness is increased as we… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Why do I like to write short stories? Well, I certainly didn't intend to. I was going to write a novel. And… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The art of writing is not, as many seem to imagine, the art of bringing fine phrases into rhythmical order, but the… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“Most people either love or hate old libraries. To some, a room like this--dim, high-ceilinged, dusty, smelling of old paper and crumbling… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are… — Larry Brooks Copy Share Image
The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Theodor Geisel (otherwise known as Dr. Seuss) spent his workdays ensconced in his private studio, the walls lined with sketches and drawings,… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
No, I never thought that I would be a writer. I had always been told I could write well, but it never… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Remain humble in your journey as an author and your audience will embrace you. Remain grateful for every publicity opportunity that comes… — Linda F. Radke Copy Share Image
The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I'd always rather spec something and just write it. Because when you're pitching something that isn't even on a page yet, it… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
When I'm not working in a professional capacity, I'm writing, and when I'm at home, it's a way of having contact with… — Jessie Cave Copy Share Image
Let us secure not such books as people want, but books just above their wants, and they will reach up to take… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
I don't want to write the thing that I am a consumer of when I'm unconscious. I want to write the thing… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
Public libraries are critical learning centers for New Mexicans that bring communities together, especially in our rural regions that depend on library… — Ben Ray Lujan Copy Share Image
And the books you write. They're not you. They're not me sitting here, this Henry Miller. They belong to someone else. It's… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Maybe other writers have perfect first drafts, but I am not one of them. I always try to get the book as… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“[Writing is] about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life as well. It's about… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
“Insomuch as the structure of this book parallels that of my own mind, it boasts about as much order and linearity as… — Melody Moezzi Copy Share Image
If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A writer can be identified just through his sigh, as a mouthful of words are flooded out in his single sigh. — Gulzar Copy Share Image
“He was never lonely, not with his books for company. Books never complained, never asked awkward questions.” — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
But I've got a plan. Why don't you be the artist And make me out of clay. Why don't you be the… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
I think the writer is always the creator, because he's starting with nothing, but the actor comes in and gives flesh and… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
![“Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we [Europeans] shall never inhabit true fiction; we…” quote by Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/b6b/jean-baudrillard-1500_anticipate_fiction-is-not-imagination-it-is-what-an_612824.jpg)
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