I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Look, anything any writer writes is going to be on some level autobiographical. Part of the funny/sad thing is that you don't… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
“When I write to please everybody, it falls flat. When I write what I know, fearlessly, It won't please everybody, but it… — Ronald P. Chavez Copy Share Image
I think when you're knee-deep in coming up with editorial plans, the desire to sit down and pencil something is pretty strong. — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
I hope I will get to novelize my present circumstances at some point. I have some great stories to tell. — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
My father once admonished me to master the laws that govern fine writing until I could weave my words into worlds. If… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
When I write a story, I have no idea what I'm doing. All I know is that I want to share something… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books. We treasure books we inherit… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties." (Interview… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
You'll have days of complete lack of faith in your abilities. But you have to keep coming back. That's when you know… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
We all want to write the kind of book that we want to read. If you put in the things that you… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
Tightly-plotted, well-researched and beautifully drawn, this book is a real delight. Garen Ewing's mix of engaging characters, exciting old-school adventure, attractive ligne… — Bryan Talbot Copy Share Image
I think I'm way too much of a control freak to co-author anything with anyone. I have a hard enough time writing… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another? — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer) — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
If you find a way to write with open heart to Diary, a friend with Truth, no detail spared, your tome like… — Robin Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Writing comes from the angels in your soul. The gifts there are shared through the keyboard to the page. The reader finds… — Barbara Beck-Elam Copy Share Image
Part of what I love so much about writing is learning about people who are unlike myself and going to places in… — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love'… — Isaac Hanson Copy Share Image
As a writer, you need a strong sense of self-belief. And when it comes to writing, I've always had that. — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
“He read because it gave him instant gratification in a way nothing else did,and as was the case with all addicts,gratification was… — Jeet Thayil Copy Share Image
To entrust to an editor a story over which you have labored and to which your name and reputation are attached can… — Edna Buchanan Copy Share Image
There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own.… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
I want to do things or write things that make people feel a bit more beautiful or tragic or something because there… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I have also led you astray by talking of technique as if it were something that could be separated from the rest… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Do not, do not, do not books for ever hammer at people like perpetual bells? When, between two books, silent sky appears:… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I tend to pull nuggets out of many books - rather than having a handful of books that serve as guiding lights. — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with… — Don Roff Copy Share Image
