I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school. — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation. — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
Make sure you're realistic about what you can do, but if you have a good lead with something, making the plunge into… — Ben Clymer Copy Share Image
I don't write about anything I don't love even if that love sometimes gets all screwed up and tormented. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
As a writer, I don't think it's my responsibility to make a point. I just write and hope there's someone who'll like… — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
How about your favorite book?" "This Side of Paradise by From. Scott Fitzgerald." "Why?" "Because it was the last one I read."… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I started writing stories at a young age, but not once did it occur to me that I could grow up to… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
I adore Wilkie Collins,” Tessa cried. “Oh—Armadale! And The Woman in White … Are you laughing at me?” “Not at you,” said… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“It is not the job of writers to life our spirits. Books simply do what they do. They sometimes confirm the capricious… — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people; for it is they who form a communication between the learned and the… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
“Pamela’s prescription was simple: give the summer mornings to Cliff End, then, in September, go full blast at the book. Specious, but… — Dorothy Macardle Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I'd much rather do a piece about people in a story that I find riveting and… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
Experience in itself wasn’t enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I’d… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
“As the death of the writer exaggerates the role of his work, the death of a person exaggerates the role of his… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart. — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help… — Vicki Baum Copy Share Image
Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand. — Bette Greene Copy Share Image
If there is no love between the author and the story, there is no love between the reader and the story. — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
I definitely feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather… — Lily King Copy Share Image
Really, what you should tell a novelist is, 'Keep going until you finish the draft. Don't show it to anyone.' — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I can only write new words at my desk, the one I've owned for 25 years. When we moved to our new… — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The technology I like is the American paperback edition of 'Freedom.' I can spill water on it, and it would still work!… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
In looking around me seeking for miserable resources against the heaviness of time, I open a book and I say to myself,… — Suzanne Curchod Copy Share Image
To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Everything bleeds into everything and fiction is just this funny desperate little attempt to staunch the bleeding.” — Meghan Lamb Copy Share Image
“If a writer doesn't believe his fictional characters are actually real, how can he expect the readers to?” — Jim Power Copy Share Image
There is an old saying: In history nothing is true but the names and dates. In fiction everything is true but the… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
You can't write about a personal struggle if you're going to water it down to meet everyone's expectations about what's appropriate. — Heidi Roizen Copy Share Image
The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I definitely write about my life and the issues I might have or the dilemmas I'm going through, but usually I write… — Oh Land Copy Share Image
It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
