Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You can, of course, write to inspire others… but most importantly, you must write to inspire yourself.” — Jessica Swan Copy Share Image
Co-creation is much more work than writing somewhere in a hidden corner and then publishing your content. However, the benefits outweigh the… — Alexander Osterwalder Copy Share Image
People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
The book industry is all about community, and it never really feels like anyone is competing against anyone, thankfully. — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
I've always found too that somewhere in whatever you've just written lies the seed of what you're going to write next. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
I say to my pupils, 'You can pitch me any thing you've got, but tell me why you're the only person who… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
Stand alone books are nice because they have everything all in one tidy little package. Neverwhere was awesome because you get action,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
My writing has to excite people and depict or include their experiences. That's part of my process - to go out and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing about emotional… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
It's an interesting job, it's a fascinating job, I can't imagine anything that would have given me more satisfaction, and not everything… — Dennis O'Neil Copy Share Image
Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of… — Art Garfunkel Copy Share Image
A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. A book may measure so-called reality as a clock measures so-called… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
One of the things that probably drew me to writing was that it was something you could get on with by yourself.… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good… — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Shobha announced, trying to lighten the mood. “And I’ll keep all the books,” Girish said in the same spirit. “Fair enough. But… — Amulya Malladi Copy Share Image
We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
To say 'A High Wind in Jamaica' is a novel about children who are abducted by pirates is to make it seem… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It's like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn't even… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage.… — Jim McKelvey Copy Share Image
I started writing nonfiction because nonfiction is well-suited to subjects that, if you wrote them as fiction, people would say, "I don't… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
“I write for a purpose. I was born to use papers and books to speak up. I was born to use my… — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Not writing is as important as writing - go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“She stamped the book and gave it to me. "You bring it back in three weeks." I held it over my heart.… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
“I'm not trying as a writer to be smart or to understand the inner workings of my narrator, I'm trying to survive… — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
“Let's go downtown," Dad said. "By the public library. You never know what wild and crazy things might be happening at the… — Marion Jensen Copy Share Image
It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Friends are animated books. They are a completely delightful, absolutely painless means of continuing one's education. — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the… — Andrea Arnold Copy Share Image
I tend to think of fiction as being mainly about characters and human beings and inner experience, whereas essays can be much… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“Reading is like therapy; the characters are the therapist, their world is their office, and the adventures are the sessions.” — Jordan Bowers Copy Share Image
“With a book, she could at least visit with people, even if it was vicariously, even if they didn't exist beyond someone's… — Lorraine Heath Copy Share Image
“I want to read every book that’s written hear every song that was sung I want to gaze at every cloud and… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
Eventually the writing takes time. What I want to do is get the story down and I want to know what happens… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and… — Clark Zlotchew Copy Share Image
