“Every individual is an author in himself. It is only that he falls short of words to express; list of stories.” — Aniruddha Sastikar Copy Share Image
There are so many ways in which we learn about life and the self. Each day opens paths to this exploration. For… — Ashley Bryan Copy Share Image
That's the moment you look for as a writer, when the characters start telling you what they are doing rather than you… — Mike Bartlett Copy Share Image
Listening is crucial for any novelist. Stories & ideas abound. We too often talk about ourselves & block out the richness others may offer. — Mark Rubinstein Copy Share Image
“A book may be regarded as irrelevant until it's relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
“As a writer you must keep a tight rein on your subjective self—the traveler touched by new sights and sounds and smells—and… — William Knowlton Zinsser Copy Share Image
Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper. — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
I get up around 8 o'clock, which gives me enough time to walk dogs and feed chickens and horses. Then I get… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“Books are a bad family - there are those you love, and those you are indifferent to; idiots and mad cousins who… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
“I spend the rest of the night doing schoolwork. After striking a match and lighting a candal, I sit down at my… — Fanny Merkin Copy Share Image
Reading was only part of the thrill that a book represented. I got a dizzy pleasure from the weight and feel of… — Debra Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“It don't take no great skill to write down a story. All you have to do is put one word after the… — Kei Miller Copy Share Image
Then, in my most careful handwriting, come all the details it would be a crime to forget. Lady licking Prim's cheek. My… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“After all, nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.” — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I believe there's a platonic ideal for every book that is written, like there's the perfect version of the book somewhere in… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
What I've learned is that you get better at writing by writing, and that 'youthful energy' will only get you so far. — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Even if I could not earn a penny from my writing, I would earn my livelihood at something else and continue to… — Irving Wallace Copy Share Image
When young writers approach me for advice, I remind them, as gently as I can, that they are on their own, with… — John Banville Copy Share Image
I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Reading felt like a daytime dream in a secret land. Nobody but I knew how to get there, and nobody but I… — Lawrence Hill Copy Share Image
I don't know if kids still read it, I just know that for me - as a boarding school kid - the… — Parker Stevenson Copy Share Image
Writers should take advantage of their surroundings, if only to trigger memories that juice their writing. — Kirby Wright Copy Share Image
When you read something, and especially when you're reading compellingly great, that becomes part of your identity, at least while you're reading… — David Ferry Copy Share Image
I try to write every day until the book is done, but the exact process depends on the story and its structure.… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
If an idea is compelling enough it'll stick in my head until I am forced to write it. If it's forgettable, who… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“Because nook people are turned on by and twig how terribly normal it is to drop out of life occasionally.” — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I think when I was 12, I started reading Evelyn Waugh, and I loved Evelyn Waugh so much, and I thought: 'This… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Instead of taking a year off, I started 'Dreamers of the Day' exactly 36 hours after I sent the manuscript for 'A… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
I know you're supposed to hide your influences, but I suppose I see writing as riffing, really, about whatever you have been… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
It is difficult, almost impossible, to find the book from which something either valuable or amusing may not be found, if the… — John Hill Burton Copy Share Image
I'm not your expert on Africa or animals or whatever. I'm not a travel writer or maker of documentaries. I was someone… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
As much as I've produced it looks to people like I must have written quickly, but it isn't that - because I… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“I had neglected to provide myself with books, and as we crept along at the dull rate of four miles per hour,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
