I don't really write for catharsis; I get that kind of work done in therapy. — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
These words are all I have so I write them I need them just to get by. — Fall Out Boy Copy Share Image
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me. — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“When we write with power and authenticity, it opens the door to our hearts and invites others in. When we're brave, we… — Lynda Cheldelin Fell Copy Share Image
A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter. — David Benioff Copy Share Image
What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Writing with other people is absolutely delightful. It's social, which a writer doesn't usually get to do. — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
Writing is a strange synthesis between the two parts of your mind: the analytical side and the side that knows nothing at… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
“In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.” — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
“I opened the book to the title page, which said the book was "A Fictional Memoir." I had no idea what this… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
“What made Madeleine sit up in bed was something closer to the reason she read books in the first place and had… — Jeffrey Eugenides The Marriage Plot Copy Share Image
“The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“When I come home and look back through my Book of Books I see a personal narrative I didn’t recognize at the… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
In the form of the oeuvre, the actual circumstances are placed in another dimension where the given reality shows itself as that… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
