What should I do?" "Throw up in your typewriter every morning." "Yeah." "Clean up every noon. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Every writer needs an editor. I don't care how good you are or think you are. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Thanks for the pain. Because without it, I wouldn't been have been able to write the things I did. — Kirsten Gilchrist Copy Share Image
You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read. — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one. — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
“I don't even know what a room without books looks like.” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
One of the things that takes a bit of getting used to on an American series is having a different director, and… — Gina Bellman Copy Share Image
My bookshelves chiefly function as a snapshot of what I was reading prior to the invention of the Kindle. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
“You can know all about a person from the things they collect, the books on their shelves, the chairs in their parlor.… — Lynda Rutledge Copy Share Image
Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one's… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“What are your drawn to?" ... "Language, Words, No, not teaching. Perhaps one day I'll write something.” — Ellen Sussman Copy Share Image
Some of the most untidy writers have also been the most productive. Iris Murdoch, for instance, wrote a good 30 books in… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
Family matters, friends matter, love matters. Those you love and who love you matter. That's what writing does - it allows you… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“You know what they say about writers: we can do it quietly, in many different positions, and all night long.” — Christopher D. Votey Copy Share Image
Fantasy works inwards upon its author, blurring the boundary between the visioned and the actual, and associating itself ever moreclosely with the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
My fiction is based on both my own experience transformed, altered, juggled and changed to suit the demands of composition, character, and… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
Thrills, chills, spine-tingling mystery, and lots of smiles. It's not easy to combine heart-pounding danger with gut-busting laughs and make it work,… — Wayne Thomas Batson Copy Share Image
Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“She read her way around the library, hungry for journeys, adventures, laughter and passion. She took each new book to bed like… — Cath Staincliffe Copy Share Image
“When I was in high school, all my friends said they were going to be writers. And I thought, How come you… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write...… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
