Life throws surprises, sorrows, sadness, and hardship, and I think that writing has actually grounded me. It kept me grounded when everything… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“When people starts to enjoy a writer's pen, he becomes a legend even if his stories are neither long nor publicly surrounded… — A. Saleh Copy Share Image
I'm much more interested in writing about the things that engage and enrage me as an adult rather than in wallowing in… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I wish I was a writer but I'm not. We can just hope that people realise that women actually have incredible stories… — Sarah Greene Copy Share Image
“what people write reflects what they believe—fiction is where you go to tell or read the truth that people will stare or… — Michael Marshall Copy Share Image
The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge.. I… — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
“How do you write like tomorrow won’t arrive? How do you write like you need it to survive? How do you write… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
A lot of people, I think, harbor some kind of ambition to write a novel - they say, 'One day I'm going… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
“Once you are truly seduced by profession of writing, you clock in one time…and never clock out. You dwell in a creative… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren't any images… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I cut an imposing figure. I am large, and I'm tall, and I have tattoos. I am actually really quiet and shy,… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“The books—the generous friends who met me without suspicion—the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull.… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
“The apartment was entirely, was only, for her: a wall of books, both read and unread, all of them dear to her… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really,… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
“I make books because I love them as objects; because I want to put the pictures and the words together, because I… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“Academics always feel that they deserve more. (Roberto Bolano) Reading and enjoying fine literature is a highly cultivated and refined activity, whereas… — Kim Leine Copy Share Image
I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass,… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
My mother told me that at the age of 6 or 7,1 would walk around reading out loud. I would go through… — James Doohan Copy Share Image
I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be a writer from as far back as I can remember. That was my talent. Lord knows… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
“Some books that were rejected multiple times, but are now famous, are J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and Beatrice… — Adam Anderson Copy Share Image
“The best things about writing are the freedom to please yourself creatively, personal accomplishment and the journey of personal growth. The worst… — Ron Houston Copy Share Image
Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
There's two identity markers I'm sure of, and one is, I'm Jewish. And the other is, I'm a writer. There's just no… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop… — George Sand Copy Share Image
My reading practice is one reason I mostly don't read electronically. Different books are in different rooms of my house, and one… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to… — A. E. van Vogt Copy Share Image
“What will happen to those who stone the prophets and persecute the masters? His fate is written in flaming letters on each… — Frank Harris Copy Share Image
If I can write it, I can cope. And I've been writing many books, but in every book, I try to explore… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“All writers pen sad stories to garner sympathy, writing is after all for the abandoned of the society: the ink-leech, spewing black… — APORVAKALA Copy Share Image
One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn't it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
I love to write. I write everything across the board - kids' stories and novels and scripts. I actually would like to… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
