Bad writing is like a bad relationship. Don't be addicted to it just because you are familiar with its ways. Let go. — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“... Bookstore, which smelled the way only a new book from England does when you open it for the first time, faintly… — Frederick Beuchner Copy Share Image
When I started the 'Broken Empire' trilogy, I thought it was a short story, and I didn't know the beginning, middle, or… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Some leaned back in their hammocks overlooking Eden, while reading Harry Potter book twenty-three – you don’t have those on Earth, I… — Cameron Jace Copy Share Image
“How to start new novel: stare at blank doc, get coffee, stare, check facebook, stare, crack knuckles, stare, tweet, you get the… — Mary C. Moore Copy Share Image
Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that's going to expand. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Your intention is for readers to benefit from your experiences and avoid the costly and time consuming mistakes you may have made.… — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek Copy Share Image
Truth be told, I didn't want to be on T.V. I was going to be a writer or producer or a director,… — Al Roker Copy Share Image
Forever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support system. Her life has been informed by reading. She has read not… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
Books are just dead words on paper and it is the readers who bring the stories alive. Previously, writers wrote a book… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
I first read 'Lolita' when I was 16, which I think is a little bit young. But it was a thrilling and… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
“Books are almost as individual as friends. There is no earthly use in laying down general laws about them. Some meet the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Power, for the writer…lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
When I started writing comics, 'comics writer' was the most obscure job in the world! If I wanted to be a celebrity,… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Susan Bordo’s Unbearable Weight is a masterpiece of complex an nuanced thinking not only about a significant problem that faces women but… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
Now, past middle age, with so many books written I still care about and only a few still in print, I know… — Richard Elman Copy Share Image
“I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
To be a writer you need to see things as they are, and to see things as they are you need a… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“My first editor used to say that eighty-five per cent of what goes on in a novelist's head is none of his… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
She writes like a loom, producing her broad rich fabric with hardly a thought of how it will make up into a… — H G Wells Copy Share Image
The - writing is a kind of act of aggression, and a person who is not aggressive in his normal, may I… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I think what helps me when I'm working on a play, any play, is the degree to which the writer has truly… — Jeffrey DeMunn Copy Share Image
My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
[T]he public library is where those without money, power, access, university affiliation, or advanced degrees can get information for free. — Siva Vaidhyanathan Copy Share Image
I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't… — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
I remain totally convinced that if we can do one more simple thing to help kids and adults to learn more, it… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
“Literature is the queen of the arts —the greatest of them all, because it embraces them all. When you write, you are… — César Aira Copy Share Image
“When I consider writing I sometimes wonder why doesn't everybody do it, other times I wonder why does anybody do it.” — Tonny K. Brown Copy Share Image
I'm a very laboured writer. I hammer it out sentence by sentence, and it takes a long time. That's what the work… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
“Downstairs Peter Beste-Chetwynde mixed himself another brandy and soda and turned a page in Havelock Ellis, which, next to The Wind in… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip… — Don Roff Copy Share Image
But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
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