You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“All truth is fiction, really, for the teller tells it as he sees it, and it might be different from some other… — Witi Ihimaera Copy Share Image
I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
I've been able to write at least one book a year for 20 years, and I don't think I would've had that… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Writing isn't about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation. — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Always refer your sadness as the end of a page, where you are frustrate to write anything in those last 2-3 lines,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is like a book; Don't jump to the end to see if it's worth it. Just enjoy life and fill the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“With this book I hope what I always hope—that readers will nod their heads (not constantly, you know, but at the odd… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
“The art of writing is not unlike the act of screaming. A constant flow of otherworldly emotions with tempos high and hymns… — Rosca Marx Copy Share Image
To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
People think librarians are unromantic, unimaginative. This is not true. We are people whose dreams run in particular ways. Ask a mountain… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
“The main reason to use Booki rather than a word processor to write a book is to effectively collaborate with other authors.… — James D. Simmons Copy Share Image
I like reading books about kids where there weren't really many adults, where they didn't need an adult to come and solve… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
I know of three ways to recognize another writer: Writers are shamelessly nosy. Writers tell good stories, even about dumb old, daily… — Joyce Thompson Copy Share Image
[If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Writers understand the world better, but they lack the strength to change it. Perhaps that is so because they understand their limitations… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and write it sentence by sentence - no first… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp.… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“But you can't teach writing, people tell me. And I say, 'Who the hell are you, God's dean of admissions?” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I haven't written in a week. It's like holding your breath under water. You feel an awful constriction and then the instinct… — D.A. Botta Copy Share Image
I wouldn't write any kind of book without a contract and an advance. You can't invest that amount of time and effort… — Harrison Salisbury Copy Share Image
“I realize that long hours of reading are not for everyone but I have never ceased to be grateful that they are… — Victor P. Hass Copy Share Image
I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it… — Charles Peguy Copy Share Image
Everything you study, everything you learn, makes you a better writer, because you have more understanding of how things work. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“And even with the book closed, the voices do not stop--there are echoes and reverberations that seem to leap off the pages… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
There are books where you can really see the moral question, which I think we answer every day for ourselves, in every… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
I love books that give you space to climb inside there. And you have to run to keep up in places, and… — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good. — Steven Bochco Copy Share Image
In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book,… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
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