The art and act of writing - speaking just for myself - involves getting your proverbial ass in the proverbial chair. — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
“As always with the greatest works, the novel is so many-sided that over time it mirrors back the shifting concerns of those… — Carl F. Hovde Copy Share Image
Some writing programs are very much like, you come in, and you have a niche that becomes yours, and, you know, you're… — Jennifer Konner Copy Share Image
If you're trying to write about very strong horror, very strong fear or very strong emotion, it's easy to overwrite it. — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this… — John Redwood Copy Share Image
Every writer has written a spec. It's the first thing you write, and it basically stands as a means of, 'Here's an… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
Every writer has his own voice. Other than that I'm always trying to do change-ups and publishers haven't always been happy about… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Writers have a reputation for being distracted. That's because writers are distracted. They are always tuned into that other voice, the one… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I've been accused over the years of being close to players, but if something needs to be written, I've tried my best… — Peter King Copy Share Image
The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places,… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Trade book publishing is by nature a cottage industry, decentralized, improvisational, personal; best performed by small groups of like-minded people, devoted to… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
There is something about libraries, old libraries, that makes them seem almost sacred. There's a smell of paper and must and binding… — Carrie Jones Copy Share Image
“...a book is a delicate friend, a white bird, an exquisite being, afraid of water. Darling things! Afraid of water, of fire,… — Tatyana Tolstaya Copy Share Image
“The book was thick and red. It was almost thicker than it was wide, a thickness that somehow enhanced its bookishness. It… — Will Self Copy Share Image
One of the most important elements of my identity is my identity as a reader. I love to read - really, if… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
“If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Anybody who writes knows the horrible, wonderful, beautiful foulness that comes every week. A lot of moaning, screaming agony - "Oh my… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
LIFE is Like A Book, You All Read It. Love is A Blessing, You All Need It. Life is Too Short, Live… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called… — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The story that I'm telling in 'Homecoming King' about falling in love, these are things that happened to me - that actually… — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
When you come to another bridge in your life to cross, move on. Looking back, It's just a chapter in the past,… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
“Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
No, originally I thought that writing articles would keep me from having to see a psychiatrist, but I became even more depressed… — Theo Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“Writing is not just my Hobby . Pen is mouthpiece of my feelings,I have no another one But paper is my best… — Mohammed Zaki Ansari Copy Share Image
I've always viewed writing as an outlet for being vulnerable and all that comes with that. You are able to let things… — Bishop Briggs Copy Share Image
What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Whenever I sat down to write something it was never anything I took lightly. It was something that I'd want you, somebody… — Rakim Copy Share Image
My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
I'm not that sort of writer where I can restrict myself to a theme, just in case nothing good comes of it. — Joe Lycett Copy Share Image
“Don't be afraid to reveal that inside you is a seething, fiery core of ambition that would appall Napolean." By Russell Galen… — Julie L. Cannon Copy Share Image
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