If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
It's funny how you can struggle with one piece and write a better one in a minute. When things come easy, it… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for a sign - not in a spooky, supernatural way, but in a 'neurotic writer' kind of way. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
People that don't write, whatever it is, they just assume you sit down and it magically pours out like Amaedus, and it's… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I learn that life is a book, every day is a new page, every month is a new chapter and every year… — Enhance Dreams Copy Share Image
An author never has a vacation. He's a walking sponge, sopping up impressions till he's saturated, then going to his desk and… — Ben Ames Williams Copy Share Image
When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're… — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
By Cunning & Craft is a masterpiece of writing about writing. If, like Scheherazade, you had to spin out a story under… — Nora Gallagher Copy Share Image
“My favorite book, by a wide margin, was An Imperial Affliction, but I didn’t like to tell people about it. Sometimes, you… — John Green Copy Share Image
If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“How ... how fragile situations are. But not tenuous. Delicate, but not flimsy, not indulgent. Delicate, that's why they keep breaking, they… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
My parents used to park us kids at the public library in downtown Honolulu every Saturday. They'd leave us there at 8… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
We'd decided to write a book about two friends. I gave her some coffee and then we sat there not knowing what… — Alison McGhee Copy Share Image
I have no patience with up-themselves authors who complain about having to trail round a few bookshops signing stock. — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“Never give birth to children thoughtlessly!'' I want to shout it out loud.That is why, stroke by faltering stroke, I've written this… — Sayo Masuda Copy Share Image
You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk… — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Obviously, you're a better writer at 31 then you are at 19. Hopefully, you're also a better human being and better at describing reality. — Ronny Chieng Copy Share Image
Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
It is horrible to sit in front of the keyboard and write those scenes because you're losing too. You lose somebody you… — Scott M. Gimple Copy Share Image
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My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
There's a lot of thievery involved in writing. You're breaking into other people's spaces and other people's stories. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I've trained myself to write the first two or three hours I'm awake simply by doing it every day. If life stuff… — Camille Perri Copy Share Image
When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest… — Alan Ayckbourn Copy Share Image
Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I've always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil - especially for corrections. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
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A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like… — Noel Clarke Copy Share Image
“For a child a library needs to be round the corner. And if we lose local libraries it is children who will… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is such a powerful book, and 'Love in the Time of Cholera' is so… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
I have always thought of myself as a writer, only because I need things to direct, and I can't not write the… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
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