The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“After reading a good book, something must change in you! If nothing changed, then you can be sure that you haven't read… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I don't personally like the e-readers they've come up with so far. I don't fetishize books, but I do like that they're… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“And the book (#7) is for whenever the hunt involves a lot of waiting around. Entertainment that won't eat up my batteries… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Writing is not the lottery. New writers have to be realistic about what it takes to get published. But there is one… — Lori Perkins Copy Share Image
Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I didn't really start publishing books until I was 40 because I was busy being a McDonald's employee. So there's always a… — Jerry Stahl 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
The key of writing fiction isn't just to remove something that the reader or listener can easily imagine. It's not a matter… — Peter Turchi Copy Share Image
“Fiction, when it’s done right, does in the daylight what dreams do at night: we leave the confines of our own experiences… — Jincy Willet Copy Share Image
I worked with several writers at the University of Michigan: Nicholas Delbanco, Peter Ho Davies, Eileen Pollack, Laura Kasischke, and Thomas Lynch,… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
That's how it always is with me: the thing that sets me down to start writing is usually not what I end… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
In the world of the American creative writing workshop, I've encountered teachers who are tempted to place, or have actually placed, a… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep… — Dana Brunetti Copy Share Image
I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Like an airplane, an oven, or an elevator, Faebook is a tool that can make life's To-Dos fun and easy.” — Carolyn Abram Copy Share Image
I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but… — Macaulay Culkin Copy Share Image
“Good fiction can help us to expand our circle of empathy to include people unlike ourselves.- R' Eitan Levy” — Eitan Levy Copy Share Image
I get very weird and defensive about what I'm working on - I wouldn't even tell my secretary what the next page… — Joan Juliet Buck Copy Share Image
I can't really write unless I'm full of inspiration. And even then I can't write unless I have some alone time. — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
For me, I just know I feel better when I stay consistent with my writing. Ten minutes a day, even. Sometimes it's… — Gracie Abrams Copy Share Image
Writing with other people is the only way I ever really work. In some ways it's great because it's helpful to someone… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
My first book was published without any editorial advice. Nobody said, 'You might do this or that,' or 'Why don't we see… — James Salter Copy Share Image
To write an autobiography of Groucho Marx would be as asinine as to read an autobiography of Groucho Marx. — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
I've spent most of my life writing and developing everything that I've wanted to be in - which is why I started… — Alex Borstein Copy Share Image
Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say. — Beryl Bainbridge Copy Share Image
In my day the library was a wonderful place… We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs...it was a sanctuary…… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Writing is such a singular and lonely occupation. And it's interesting; all of the work that you create is so singular. — James Avery Copy Share Image
If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
It's not like publishing is perfect. Far from it. The industry is struggling to adapt and survive, and it's incredibly frustrating trying… — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a comic writer, in some ways, and a comic person when I'm up at a podium, in order to disguise the… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I think we're so often, as writers, afraid of writing something that is less than perfect, and that fear paralyzes us. I'm… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
