Michael Winter’s fiction is a lot like hearing him talk about his life… harrowing in an after-the-fact hilarious way. Full of wonder… — Michael Crummey Copy Share Image
“O quam dulcis vita fuit dum sedabamus in quieti . . . inter liborum copias. : 'Oh how sweet life was when… — Alcuin of York Copy Share Image
“IF you wish to be a writer then don't wait until you write the "great American novel" for they aren't written they… — Shiree Mccarver Copy Share Image
I think it's always wrong of writers to make too much of the pains of their labors, because most people have much… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“In the end, all that a writer has to pass on is not myth and anecdote, but scene and character, evoked in… — Will Blythe Copy Share Image
Well, the secret to writing is writing. It's only a secret to people who don't want to hear it. Writing is how… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I don't want to write without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me. — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the project, I wasn't certain that I could come up with an engaging storyline and cast of characters… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
No one who reads this book will remain unchanged or unaffected-Julene Bair's story arcs from the cornfields of Kansas and Nebraska to… — Jonis Agee Copy Share Image
“Every novel which is truly written contributes to the total of knowledge which is there at the disposal of the next writer… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
“Next to the defeated politician, the writer is the most vocal and inventive griper on earth. He sees hardship and unfairness wherever… — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
Everything I've written has been personal and touched on things that I needed to deal with in my personal life. So I… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
People who need to possess the physical copy of a book, and not merely an electronic version, are in some sense mysteics.… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
I do know that I need solitude, not only to write but to nourish myself (being, like most writers, an introvert) so… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Let the novelists fret about consistency - story writers should feel free to jam; to get things right in new, surprising ways… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“The great thing is to be always reading but never to get bored -- treat it not like work, more as a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
These are the kinds of stories I'm really interested in telling: bad stories about bad people, I'm comfortable with. — Brian Azzarello Copy Share Image
I've realized that with each novel I seem to set out a kind of puzzle for myself. And I am never sure… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
I see 'Hansel and Gretel' as a breakthrough book for me, and one of the reasons is because I started to apply… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
It's OK to screw up. For me, this was the big revelation when I was writing my first book, 'In the Woods':… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Writing was a defeat, it was a humiliation, it was coming face-to-face with yourself and seeing you weren't good enough.” — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation. — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school. — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
For those who can do it and who keep their nerve, writing for a living still beats most real, grown-up jobs hands… — Terence Blacker Copy Share Image
“In the real world, writing is not artificially separated into specific discourses. It is blended for effect.” — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was so little so it just feels like a natural response to any situation emotionally for me… — Gracie Abrams Copy Share Image
I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“no writing is a waste of time--no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work.” — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“As the death of the writer exaggerates the role of his work, the death of a person exaggerates the role of his… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Experience in itself wasn’t enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I’d… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
