I think many people have wonderful stories inside them and the talent to tell those stories. But the writing life, with its… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
In general, writers who talk to their colleagues and neighbors constantly about their own writing seem to me pretty insufferable. I try… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“Don't be afraid to reveal that inside you is a seething, fiery core of ambition that would appall Napolean." By Russell Galen… — Julie L. Cannon Copy Share Image
I enjoy storytelling. I like to write it, I like to direct it, I like to act in it, I like to… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
“I've discovered that sometimes writing badly can eventually lead to something better. Not writing at all leads to nothing.” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It's weird for me to say I'm lucky when I can't go into a bookstore and have more than five choices if… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Because of my poor writing posture, I started walking in the forest every day, and I found it a potent place to… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
“That's why I read so much. A book isn't going to hurt me. A book isn't going to form some opinion about… — Paulette Mahurin Copy Share Image
I write all the time, I've got a big, thick, old ledger book that I write stuff down in. I used to… — Thighpaulsandra Copy Share Image
The first novel I wrote was a monster - clocking in at 180,000 words - but it died a death, a death… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
“From travelling booksellers and undercover bookshops, to pop-up stalls and community hubs, walking into a good bookshop is like walking into another… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The story of John Nash is an amazing, powerful journey. But as unique as this man is, his story is also very… — Ron Howard Copy Share Image
“Writing is what happens when the words in your head are overpowered by the words in your heart." J.L. Bond” — J.L. Bond Copy Share Image
Writing can be a very isolating profession. By its very nature, you spend a lot of your time barricaded in your house… — D. B. Weiss Copy Share Image
“The greatness of a writer has nothing to do with subject matter itself, only with how much the subject matter touches the… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I go in and out of season. I won't write for months, and then all of a sudden, I'll write like I've… — Daphne Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I'm about going out in the world and noticing stuff, and going home and writing it down, and putting it next to… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
“To librarians, booksellers, and collectors there is nothing limited in the subject of books about books.” — Leona Rostenberg Copy Share Image
I think that's one of the maybe under-discussed aspects of process - the difference between a good writing day and a bad… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I want to tell stories that are true and that resonate and move people, that highlight both the tremendous beauty and ugliness… — Maya Hawke Copy Share Image
Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Writing things down with a pen is a lot faster and more therapeutic than trying to type something on a tiny touchscreen… — Jodie Beau Copy Share Image
Books equals Knowledge. Knowledge qualifies you to get great Job. a Great job,in turn, makes you gain a sizeable fortune. So, pick… — Moulay Abdallah Boulaassair Copy Share Image
I write about whatever turns up. Every single day, I'm sitting down for three to five hours in the evenings wrestling away… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction. — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
“I want to write a novel that is so good it causes readers to ignore meals, sleep, work, friends and spouses!!” — R.E. Fisher Copy Share Image
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
“It might not be so unpleasant, you know, to do me one or two favours in exchange for becoming a famous authoress.” — Margaret Westhaven Copy Share Image
Sorry friend I don't known any author of this filled,, no ones is my ideal, it's my filling, my experience, or my… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Everything I've written is based on something that has happened to me or something that I know a great deal about. — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
“The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
When I do actual sequential work, I really want a story I can get a behind: a story that really holds my… — Brian Stelfreeze Copy Share Image
