I shudder to think of an eternity spend without books. I have hopes that every book that was ever lost is somewhere… — Mel Odom Copy Share Image
“All witches who'd lived in her cottage were bookish types. They thought you could see life through books but you couldn't, the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence.… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“I think you overestimate the maturity of adults, he wrote me in his final letter, a letter he sent only after I’d… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“When people ask me why I'm writing 15 books, I tell them I didn't choose to write 15 books, they chose me!!” — Diem Burden Copy Share Image
Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enenemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy... so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It’s easy to become careless when making rough comparisons, but the alternative is a prissy attention to detail that takes all the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My dad taught me that to be a writer is a decision and a habit. It's not anything lofty, and it doesn't… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to preach doctrines, sing… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There are writers, and I know some of them, who are very disciplined. Who write, like, four pages a day, every day.… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I sometimes have to think about that because if I think about these five things and think of them all, I'll drop… — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
“I love to write, and I love to read too, but that doesn't mean I like to write about reading - 'cause… — Kevin Emerson Copy Share Image
What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies…Fiction is democratic, it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In books there are chapters to separate out the moments, to show that time is going by and things are changing, and… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
Perhaps, it is just as well to be rash and foolish for a while. If writers were too wise, perhaps no books… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
our finest writing will certainly come from what is unregenerate in ourselves. It will come from the part that is obdurate, unbanishable,… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I disagree. You need… — Nathaniel Rich Copy Share Image
Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self. — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
The ultimate starting point for planning any adventure or expeditionby far and away the greatest book on earth — Ranulph Fiennes Copy Share Image
What I tell young writers is to find those things that you're so passionate about that your energy doesn't run away. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“fiction started up, and we started burning brain cells on stories about things that didn’t happen to people who didn’t exist. Why?… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
You have to be rather relentless about pushing other things out of the way. This activity of writing, which has no promises… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
A writer's main tool is his memory - his own memory, the collective memory of his people. And the strongest memory is… — Anatoly Rybakov Copy Share Image
When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing.… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I don't really look for challenges as much as I like adventures. Other than that I'm just trying to find stories I… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
“It was impossible to feel alone in a room full of favorite books. I had the sense that they knew me personally,… — Riley Redgate Copy Share Image
“Who knows why we do it? And when we've done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That's what makes… — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
“Scott took LITERATURE so solemnly. He never understood that it was just writing as well as you can and finishing what you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Author says writing about Jesus is difficult because it is like writing about a friend "who is still liable to surprise us.” — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
I feel so lucky and so privileged that I like writing for myself. Like, I don't have to wait for somebody to… — Sasheer Zamata Copy Share Image
“One of the hardest concepts for students to grasp or accept about writing is the time that it takes to make something… — Cynthia D. Urbanski Copy Share Image
With novels, you're sitting at a desk, alone, going slightly crazy, for anywhere from six months to a year with zero feedback. — Duane Swierczynski Copy Share Image
If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Let go of the idea that somehow you can outsmart a first draft. Because I have never met anybody who can. — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
