When I sit down to write, I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not… — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
What I really, really love is writing. If I can just write and make a really nice living out of that, why… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“So I "feckup" words sometimes...I write in a colloquial style, so did Mark Twain. Seems I'm in pretty good company.” — Emma Paul Copy Share Image
A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
however many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
There were points in my career where I thought, 'Maybe I'm done. Maybe I've written everything there is to write.' Now I've… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
I read 'The First Bad Man' by Miranda July, and I just thought, 'Oh my God, I'll never be this good. That… — Jenny Mollen Copy Share Image
I feel with writing, so much of the time, I don't know how to tap in and be spontaneous and alive on… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
For the kind of places I've written for and the kind of writing that I've done, the general way to think about… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
“Books were the main reason Rose worked in bookstores, for no matter how chaotic and strange the worlds in them might be,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a creator of character his peculiarity is that he creates wherever his eyes rest ... With such a power at his… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“If a story seems too random, or perhaps too brilliant, for a "madman" to have conceived of it himself, then consider that… — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. That means trying to understand, take in, connect with, what… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I write at a standing desk, which has helped me be much more productive and solved some back problems, but mostly all… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them...let them be your friends.” — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Behind the story I tell is the one I don't...Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I am a story-teller working with a craft. My job is to use my craft - which is a different thing to… — Gavin Hood Copy Share Image
I get absolutely ruthless in my own way about not doing anything else when I am trying to concentrate on writing a… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Burning books is not as horrible as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When you're writing, your mind has a place where the stories happen. With one word, you can get the idea of where… — Luis Negron Copy Share Image
“Mr. Mac, the most practical thing that you ever did in your life would be to shut yourself up for three months… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
If I wrote down all the things I imagined that would happen in my life, I would've been an amazing author.. — Sachithra Copy Share Image
Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole,… — Nick Blaemire Copy Share Image
You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
Stop in the middle of a sentence, leaving a rough edge for you to start from the nest day - that way,… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Connie Heermann is a Freedom Writer teacher. I believe she represents the best of what dedicated teachers can be because she chose… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
People ask me if I am going to write my memoirs. But even if I wanted to, I would not be able.… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
Charlie Huston, who showran the first season [of Powers], is a novelist, and likes to internalize fiction as a novelist does. — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
“My life is an open book looking for chapters of love to fill my lonely pages. -Michelle Carithers read more "A Daughter's… — M. Carithers Copy Share Image
“He can’t remember, but he still knows exactly where to find it on his bookshelf, books are willing to wait, he says… — Jenny Erpenbeck Copy Share Image
James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand… — Lily King Copy Share Image
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
When you're done [with writing a book], people tell you "Well, gee, I'm not interested." "Great, I'm glad I sat down and… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
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