As a writer, I don't think it's my responsibility to make a point. I just write and hope there's someone who'll like… — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
Make sure you're realistic about what you can do, but if you have a good lead with something, making the plunge into… — Ben Clymer Copy Share Image
I don't write about anything I don't love even if that love sometimes gets all screwed up and tormented. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Really, what you should tell a novelist is, 'Keep going until you finish the draft. Don't show it to anyone.' — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I can only write new words at my desk, the one I've owned for 25 years. When we moved to our new… — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
If there is no love between the author and the story, there is no love between the reader and the story. — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand. — Bette Greene Copy Share Image
I see myself as, first and above all, a teacher of history; next, a writer of European history; next, a commentator on… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess - perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest . .… — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
“I put the books I was returning on the appropriate desk, and I began looking at the shelves of new arrivals. Most… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
“A good library’s existence is a potential step forward for a community. If hate and fear have ignorance at their core, maybe… — Josh Hanagarne Copy Share Image
'To Kill a Mockingbird' appeared to highly favorable reviews and quickly climbed to the top of bestseller lists, where it remained for… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
I begin early in the morning and edit everything I wrote the previous day. I write until mid-afternoon. My goal is to… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
I definitely feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather… — Lily King Copy Share Image
To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help… — Vicki Baum Copy Share Image
I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart. — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
“Everything bleeds into everything and fiction is just this funny desperate little attempt to staunch the bleeding.” — Meghan Lamb Copy Share Image
There is an old saying: In history nothing is true but the names and dates. In fiction everything is true but the… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
“If a writer doesn't believe his fictional characters are actually real, how can he expect the readers to?” — Jim Power Copy Share Image
To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In looking around me seeking for miserable resources against the heaviness of time, I open a book and I say to myself,… — Suzanne Curchod Copy Share Image
In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
The technology I like is the American paperback edition of 'Freedom.' I can spill water on it, and it would still work!… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
“I love ebooks. I love the idea of storing books in “The Cloud”, because honestly, reading and rainy days go together like… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“I always return home to the same few authors. And, no matter how many times I return, I always find they have… — Charles Chu Copy Share Image
Anonymity usually arouses a great interest and curiosity but on the background of extraordinary style of writing mixed with brilliant humour the… — Kotlesya Copy Share Image
How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
See, what I don't like listening to is when writers go, 'And then the person cries.' 'Or the person does this.' It's… — Kim Coates Copy Share Image
Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I definitely write about my life and the issues I might have or the dilemmas I'm going through, but usually I write… — Oh Land Copy Share Image
It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
You can't write about a personal struggle if you're going to water it down to meet everyone's expectations about what's appropriate. — Heidi Roizen Copy Share Image
“Every writer in the history of the world has been afraid to put words on the page. But we only remember those… — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
“Consciously or unconsciously, the reader is dissatisfied with being told only what is not; the reader wishes to be told what is...… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
