“It’s one of those times when the question is its own answer…. The writing is itself the solution to the inability to… — Yael Shahar Copy Share Image
“Having writers block sucks more than my actual writing. And my writing would be astonishing if I could write how I feel.” — Ally Spina Copy Share Image
A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whether you're an unpublished novelist or a sixteen-time New York Times bestselling author, you can always improve your craft. You can always… — Robert Dugoni Copy Share Image
Where's the mileage in an autobiography? Anyone who writes one inevitably casts themselves as a hero, and I'm not about to do… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
“. . .sometimes reading the same page over and over, until one sleepy afternoon something clicked, like a lock unlocking, and she… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Books in the YA genre, in particular, should use proper grammar because they're more of an example to young people than adults… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
When you write a book, and you argue a problem is complicated and multidimensional, it's very easy to read a slice of… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
“I couldn't read SAY MY NAME immediately. There was no Larry for me but it was far too close to the bones… — Rosalinda Copy Share Image
When you sit down to write, you have to be prepared to strip all of those voices away, all of the censors… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
If I wanted to curse you out, I would write everything I wanted to say to you in my diary, and it… — Claressa Shields Copy Share Image
Imagine (if you dare) a whimsical marriage of Lord Dunsany and S.J. Perelman, and you have something approaching the tales of Rhys… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any… — Ben Schwartz Copy Share Image
Those of us who obsess over every word and action are constantly recalling past events, but that doesn't make them any less… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
I know well enough that very few people who are supposedly interested in writing are interested in writing well. They are interested… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I just start writing, and in the process, one hopefully comes up with ideas and solutions and explores all the little nooks… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I'd hate to be a writer forever and never perform, and I'd hate to perform and not write. I get sad if… — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
A person with a hundred interests is twice as alive as one with only fifty and four times as alive as the… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
You get used to it I suppose, but it's always a bit disappointing to see a comic referred to as 'by [writer]'… — Jamie McKelvie Copy Share Image
I like writing about the issues we all bump up against as we get older, but I try to present them in… — Lisi Harrison Copy Share Image
This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with… — John Green Copy Share Image
The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I call Algonquin Books 'the gods and goddesses of publishing.' Not only did they give me a career, they care deeply about… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
“They hauled books from the shelves, flipped through the pages, and tossed them to the floor until an entire library of legal… — Ariel Lawhon Copy Share Image
Nevil Shute's On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, one which I read,… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
When I write, I'm constantly putting myself in the position of someone else as I write using myriad voices; I think that's… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Remember that the writing itself is good for you. If your story is so close to home that you are afraid to… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
I'm a person who, when I set out to write, I write. It's just like when you set out to eat, you… — Juan Gabriel Copy Share Image
One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do. — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
She got her Daddy's car and she cruised through the hamburger stand now. Seems like she forgot about the library like she… — The Beach Boys Copy Share Image
My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer, and my mom's a director and writer. Even when I was young,… — Troian Bellisario Copy Share Image
“Writing can give you what having a baby can give you: it can get you to start paying attention, can help you… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“A writer needs a partner who can act as fuel to his artistic mind, yet has the great ability to sober him… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just any words, but, if you can, into rhythm and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I actually write a lot, but mostly just daily gibberish. I am a documentation addict: "I just peed. I walked down the… — Brian Chippendale Copy Share Image
When reviewers take the trouble to compliment a writer on her style, it is usually because she has made it easy for… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image