I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I'd always wanted to be a… — Ben Richards Copy Share Image
The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I am finding it very hard to get my novel started. I suffer from stylistic abscesses; and sentences keep itching without coming… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I think the moment you're writing about somebody who's not exactly you, then the challenge is all equal. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Are there any books of that sort nowadays? The only ones I ever see mentioned in the papers are about married couples… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
If as a child I had written a story, the best story that I could imagine, I would have written as indeed… — Paolo Maldini Copy Share Image
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them… — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
“She had more of me then I had of myself. We were both wild birds chasing the stars. We’d lose our way… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
If I'm writing about my life, I'm already thinking of anyone in my life who might be reading it, and I'm keeping… — Mandy Stadtmiller Copy Share Image
“1. Write every day 2. Write what interests you. 3. Write for the child inside of you. (Or the adult, if you… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“I’m 30, it’s Christmas, and I’m a writer without a job. I sit here engulfed in a furious fit of frustration. My… — Josh Mitchell Copy Share Image
The way to start writing isn't by writing at all. But by living. It isn't about creating something from thin air, but… — Yasmin Ahmad Copy Share Image
In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
With writing ... you must keep in the habit. After a lapse it will take you not an hour, but a week,… — Anne Bosworth Greene Copy Share Image
You want the greatest trick for writing a novel? Here it is: imagine urgently whispering your story into one person's ear -… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
“The authors whose books get published - once accepted as a reclusive breed - are now vetted by publicists to make sure… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“I'm a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons,… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“I don’t get writer's block because I don’t believe in it. I believe you sit in front of the computer and force… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
“Now called for something drastically un-running away. Now called for--what? Suddenly I had it. Now called for being a librarian! (--Sally Jay… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, sometimes you have to spend time poking at a part of yourself that normal, sane people leave alone. — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
It's hard to describe the work of the British-born Australian writer Elizabeth Jolley without somewhat misrepresenting it. — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I'm never without my personalised Anya Hindmarch diary - I keep my schedule online, too, but my diary is always in my… — Aerin Lauder Copy Share Image
I remember reading The Bluest Eye when I was a young parent, and something opened in me. That's the highest aspiration. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The public takes from a writer, or a writing, what it needs and lets the remainder go. but what they take is… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That's why… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
“Solitude, competitiveness and grief are the unavoidable lot of a writer only when there is no organization or network to which he… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Anytime you can muster the fury to actually write in the face of the impossibility of writing, that's an achievement. — John Maus Copy Share Image
Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Let me give you a piece of advice: Leo Tolstoy is not the only human being on this planet. Yet all I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that. — Shaun Cassidy Copy Share Image
Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms… — Peter York Copy Share Image
