All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Anton Chekhov wisely said, “"The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That is the best part of writing: finding the hidden treasures, giving sparkle to worn out events, invigorating the tired soul with… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I have been writing since I was about 20, and at first I wrote in secret and never showed anybody. I was… — David Friedman Copy Share Image
I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking. — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
As far as which writers embody this form of gentle power - Tobias Wolff, for sure. His persona and his writing both… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Could there be a more hilarious sad sack than Duncan Leland, whose trials and tribulations, so wittily conveyed, had me laughing (and… — Mameve Medwed Copy Share Image
“Every book should begin with attractive endpapers,' he had once told Meggie. 'Preferably in a dark color: dark red or dark blue… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I write differently from the way Glen used to. I haven't written very much lately, I mean, since I've been in the… — Sid Vicious Copy Share Image
“There’s something about writing that demands a leave-taking, an abandonment of the world, paradoxically, in order to see it clearly. This retreat… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
When we wrote that scene about the Sleepy Kittens where he's reading the storybook to the kids, it's like we've had to… — Cinco Paul Copy Share Image
In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel.… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer,… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
Throughout my life, there's just periods when I write and periods when I don't. I don't feel like anything's really blocked. "Writer's… — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
“Bookselling is like prostitution, you sell your wares, you close your eyes, and you never fall in love with the clients. You… — Colin Bateman Copy Share Image
“I love the process of creating a story that will resonate in my readers lives ~ either inspiring them, educating them, or… — Kathryn Albright Copy Share Image
You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight… — James Daly Copy Share Image
When I write, I tend to be quite cut off from the world. At that point of time, I'm not thinking about… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
I chart a little first-list of names, rough synopsis of chapters, and so on. But one daren't overplan; so many things are… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The only complete reading is that which transforms the book into a simultaneous network of reciprocal relations. — Jean Rousset Copy Share Image
I don't write these stories for the rewards that come back to me. I write them because I have to write them.… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
Sometimes the best reading comes just by accident. Someone talks about a book, or you're just wandering the stacks in the library,… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
The actual act of writing brings me such pleasure - to tell stories, to engage in cultural criticism, to reflect, to question,… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I write a column for The Village Voice, which I've done since time immemorial, and occasionally - and books. And I occasionally… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning… — Jerome Lawrence Copy Share Image
How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read if they can't even fit inside the building? -Derek… — Zoolander Copy Share Image
Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
With fiction, it could be about anything. It just has to be good writing, like Maria Semple's "Where'd You Go, Bernadette," which… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
20 years ago, when Bob Bly starting teaching copywriting, the field was deeply shrouded in mystery. Now, thanks to Bob, learning copywriting,… — Ken McCarthy Copy Share Image
I feel as if I became a documentary film-maker only because I had writer's block for four decades. There's no other good… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
“Books have a publishing standard, and every Indie Author is responsible to their readers in making sure those standards are met or… — Eeva Lancaster Copy Share Image
“We’re all born believing,” said Jasper. “The trick of life is to keep believing, even when we’re faced with disappointment. That’s why… — Christa Avampato Copy Share Image
“Writers are not exactly storytellers, but scribes for the worlds beyond the grasps, beyond the conceptions of the common mind.” — Bailey Elizabeth Copy Share Image
I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job,… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“Some writers refuse to lay their heads peaceably on the pillow of literary history in order to give posterity good dreams." --… — of the works of Knut Hamsun (26 nov 1998 James Wood review in London Review of Books Copy Share Image
