If you want to write, find your splinter. Find the thing that pierces you and won't let you go. — Megan McDonald Copy Share Image
The idea of having to make constant reference to politics is anathema to my calling as a writer. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The publication of a book only brings very paltry results to its author. — George Sand Copy Share Image
I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My job is not to regulate your response to the truth - my job is to tell it.” — Yaa Gyasi Copy Share Image
Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
At the end of the day I am a writer, and if I don't take care of this, no one else will. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Nothing, not love, not greed, not passion or hatred, is stronger than a writer's need to change another writer's copy. — Arthur Evans Copy Share Image
“You'd have thought that after twenty years editing murder mysteries I'd have noticed when I found myself in the middle of one.” — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I like to think that I get better and better as a writer, but it seems pretty easy to me to slip… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
People who grew up on my books are now able to get the point across to others that they're worth reading. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
“My new book is going well. It’s practically writing itself! Actually, what I mean is I’m not writing it, my clone is.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
This is what I find encouraging about the writing trades: ... They allow lunatics to seem saner than sane. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“ autonomy , n . "I want my books to have their own shelves", you said, and that's how I knew it… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing. — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
Simply put, meta-writing is writing that is self-conscious, self-reflective, and aware of itself as an artifice. The writer is aware she's writing,… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
In the old days, writers used to sit in front of a typewriter and stare out of the window. Nowadays, because of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Write while the heat is in you. The write who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
I read John Irving's novel 'The World According To Garp' when I was about 14 or 15. It was the first grown-up… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I love writing. I love getting lost in creative projects when I'm going through a tough transition in life. I always keep… — Melanie Iglesias Copy Share Image
