And write what you love - dont feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny. You're… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“I had devoted my whole life to books; to bookshops; to booksellers; to bookish people like Charles and Alan. And in doing… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I get to wondering if I really can write or if I'm just being delusional...then I decide it doesn't matter because… — Bea Cannon Copy Share Image
“the book is intended to show how it is possible to live in and be enlarged by loss, even as we continue… — Jerry Sittser Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels. — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
A novel, especially a first novel, is... really an emotional autobiography. All these emotions I'm embarrassed at having had, I've written about. — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
“Reality mixed in with the right dash of creative license is what works the best - when writing novels, at least!” — Mike Watson Copy Share Image
I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
“If books were roads, some would be made for driving quickly - details are scant, and what details there are appear drab… — Peter Mendelsund Copy Share Image
There is something to be said for the openness to form, and literary form because it forces you to actually think about… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
“The boarding school memoir or novel is an enduring literary subgenre, from 1950s classics such as The Catcher in the Rye to… — Jon Doust Copy Share Image
I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
“What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I sighed, looking down at the book in my hands. The Years. I rested my elbow against the arm of the couch… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
When I write for 'n+1,' I begin by doing a lot of reading, to try to convince myself I'm not stupid. Then… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Fiction is overrated, Fly. We’ve discussed this. In the time it takes those novelist fuckers to contemplate a few poetic passages, a… — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
I'm really into the 'classic' thing - the craft of writing something that will last, that won't die by next year. — Natalie Prass Copy Share Image
“Don’t ever undermine writers for life is much about writing and memories are well kept through writing” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
As a writer, I've tried to avoid strong opinions about morality. You just want to present things as they are and let… — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
When I was little, all I really wanted out of my life was to become Nancy Drew. I've always enjoyed fictional sleuths,… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
A really good day for me is to write my book for about four hours, go to the writing room for about… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair,… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The professorial dictum has always been to write what you know, but I say write what you don't know and find something… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
Giving the reader the space to move around and be active, and encourage their active response is important to me. That will… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
I wrote almost all of it in the deepest hope and conviction. Sifting my thoughts and choosing my words. Trying to say… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing's fun. You're… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“If I read a book that impresses me, I have to pull myself together before I mingle with other people. Otherwise they… — Diana Mauer Copy Share Image
The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I'm bright, but there are lots of bright writers and people everywhere. In no way, at no point do I think I'm… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option. — Warren Adler Copy Share Image
Writing in a near-frenzy is wonderful and freeing but, for me, it does not result in a nice shiny novel. Instead what… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“I've read many more books than you. It doesn't matter how many you've read. I've read more. Believe me.” ― Nicola Yoon,… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone honestly would hire me, so I don't think I have to worry but, if it was well written… — Mary-Louise Parker Copy Share Image
