Writing a long essay is probably the most complex constructive act that most human beings areever expected to perform. — Carl Bereiter Copy Share Image
I've grown more and more appreciative of good writing, and I now really hope I can become a better and better writer. — James Lapine Copy Share Image
I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Everyone who has ever written will have discovered that writing always awakens something which, though it lay within us, we failed clearly… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“Fiction is an urgent business. It is the Dying Us telling stories to the Dying Us, trying to crack the nonsense in… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“A book is a machine to think with, but it need not, therefore, usurp the functions either of the bellows or the… — Ivor A. Richards Copy Share Image
The cool thing about being a songwriter, or a writer, I guess, in general, you can take on a lot of different… — Amos Lee Copy Share Image
I always think about myself as a writer; that comes out of being a reader first, and I don't think I kind… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“A stout, middle-aged man, with enormous owl-eyed spectacles, was sitting somewhat drunk on the edge of a great table, staring with unsteady… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“A book isn't a single, static thing with one unarguable meaning. Each reader who comes to it brings his own special knowledge,… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
“ My friend Isabel says, When you’re writing even a short novel, with at least a couple of subplots, and God only… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
“While some dismiss the Bible as a dusty old book, I view its pages as portals to adventure. Not only is the… — Margaret Feinberg Copy Share Image
Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The thing is, Sara, writing's scary. You have to be prepared to go deep…And when your brain's shouting, 'No, no, no, I'm… — Felicity Everett Copy Share Image
“Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I always write on unlined typing paper and write the first draft in longhand, using cheap Bic pens. I try to write… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
“Ruth Cole was a novelist; novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Writing improves in direct ratio to the number of things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.” — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“Writers are made -- forged, really, in a kiln of their own madness and insecurities -- over the course of many, many… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
“Writers don’t get time off. Every moment - waking or sleeping - a writer is working, observing, thinking and creating.” — Graeme Roberts Copy Share Image
Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To say that I enjoyed writing... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them. — Dennis Covington Copy Share Image
With 'Brooklyn,' I knew the story I wanted to tell, and I just had a very strong sense that if I turned… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
When a book remembers, we remember. It reminds you that you have a body. So many of the things we may think… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The thing I have to do as a writer, and that God permits me to do, is that I have to be… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Maybe the Kindle was the Bowflex of bookishness: something expensive that, when you commit to it, forces you to do more of… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“Thanks to Dr Nick Edwards, who helped persuade me to write this book. Feel free to read his book In Stitches. It… — Benjamin Daniels Copy Share Image
The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut.… — Henry James Copy Share Image
My mum taught me how to read before I went to kindergarden, I always thought that being able to read provided lightness,… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
It is an admonition to myself when I am reading other people's books. Writing a book is very difficult to do, even… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
For my 100-day project, I decided to keep a journal. It could be just one sentence. Often, it was just one word,… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
“To write better you must develop your taste for truth. You have to pay more attention to what you really think, feel,… — Jonathan Price Copy Share Image
It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
People think you have to go through something to write about it, and you absolutely do not. You can write about, like,… — Billie Eilish Copy Share Image
I know a lot of writers who tell me they 'always' knew how to read. They can't remember a time before reading.… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
A HUMAN ELEMENT is an elegant and haunting first novel. Unrelenting, devious but full of heart. Highly recommended. — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
Life is like a book. Some are sad, some are happy, and some exciting. But if we never turn the page, we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“the Times reported last week that reading literary fiction increases one’s empathy and emotional intelligence.” — Kelly Luce Copy Share Image
“There is no book you can read or friend you can talk to that will make you ready for the moment when… — Sophie Oak Copy Share Image
