“Academics always feel that they deserve more. (Roberto Bolano) Reading and enjoying fine literature is a highly cultivated and refined activity, whereas… — Kim Leine Copy Share Image
I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass,… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
There's two identity markers I'm sure of, and one is, I'm Jewish. And the other is, I'm a writer. There's just no… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop… — George Sand Copy Share Image
My reading practice is one reason I mostly don't read electronically. Different books are in different rooms of my house, and one… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“Some books that were rejected multiple times, but are now famous, are J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and Beatrice… — Adam Anderson Copy Share Image
When a child is learning to write, it is extremely easy for it to hold the pen wrongly, and to form its… — James Allen Copy Share Image
“I write because of the fragility of our existence. I write because it's my answer to impermanence. I write because it helps… — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
If I had an author superpower, I would like to have the ability to stop time for everyone else. I feel like… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For...… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
You don't know what you need when you're a young writer. You can get small slivers of critical input, advice, comments, but… — David Means Copy Share Image
“I really didn't write it with any intention of being published. If I'd known that was going to happen, I would have… — Gideon Defoe Copy Share Image
The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. Im caught up in… — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
“The writer is a secret criminal. How? First because writing tries to undertake the journey toward strange sources of art that are… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
“The best things about writing are the freedom to please yourself creatively, personal accomplishment and the journey of personal growth. The worst… — Ron Houston Copy Share Image
“All writers pen sad stories to garner sympathy, writing is after all for the abandoned of the society: the ink-leech, spewing black… — APORVAKALA Copy Share Image
One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn't it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
I love to write. I write everything across the board - kids' stories and novels and scripts. I actually would like to… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Writing becomes a really good creative outlet when you're sitting there and feeling creatively frustrated or stilted, but also you then get… — Zoe Lister-Jones Copy Share Image
I will read anything at all by Kate Atkinson, Daniel Woodrell, and William Kennedy, who are all fearless. — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to… — A. E. van Vogt Copy Share Image
If I can write it, I can cope. And I've been writing many books, but in every book, I try to explore… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“What will happen to those who stone the prophets and persecute the masters? His fate is written in flaming letters on each… — Frank Harris Copy Share Image
You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
You know, that's kind of the thing, I can't freestyle and I used to always wonder why I couldn't, and when I… — Bubba Sparxxx Copy Share Image
“Never place your punch at the beginning of a column nor at the end. Sneak it in where it's least expected. Fill… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I write in quite a simple way because that's just the way I write. The vocab I use is quite wee. That's… — Limmy Copy Share Image
“Writing is like breathing underwater. It's really hard to do unless you can imagine yourself a nice set of gills.” — Alane Adams Copy Share Image
Anyone who wants to be a writer should, if given the opportunity, hang out with "real writers," that is, poets or writers… — Kirby Wright Copy Share Image
Thoth, Hermes, the stylus, the palette, the pen, the quill endure, though our books are a floor of smouldering ash under our… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that… — Alice Lowe Copy Share Image
