Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being. — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling. — Macaulay Culkin Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Writing is hard. I learned how to work hard from wrestling, not English courses. — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story.” — Don Roff Copy Share Image
“a sort of journal which I can write in whenever I feel inclined. I do not suppose there will be much interest… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school,… — Anita Desai Copy Share Image
The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If you want to write a book that's very successful and famous, then it's hard. If you just want to get published,… — Kate Cary Copy Share Image
But literature, I discovered, can also save you. Truly. Over the cliché and through the truth, it can save. — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: 'Where are… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I think that we need to measure how we give dollars to libraries by need. And the communities that are poor, in… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The novel, as a genre, was once considered a diversion every bit as frivolous as Facebook, but over the years, we've managed… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
If a person chooses not to be a writer, or speaker, then (by definition) the person is choosing not to be engaged… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think we overrate experience and what we've been through in terms of our success at doing the work we do. There… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
“This is not an autobiography. It is, rather, a kind of curriculum vitae — my attempt to show how one writer was… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I write to express myself, I write to be a voice for those who can not speak I write to inspire change… — Criss Tareyton Copy Share Image
“I lie on the floor with my head on my books and my feet up on more of my books and stare… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
All the old school Young Adult novels inspired me. I grew up reading R.L. Stine, Christopher Pike, Richie Cusick, and so on.… — Jennifer Armentrout Copy Share Image
I'm too impatient to wait for things to happen to me. If I should be out of work for two months I… — Erland Josephson Copy Share Image
