“Being a writer is like standing naked in the High Street hoping people won't find you ridiculous.” — Graham Storrs Copy Share Image
“Mary Connealy is a Carol Award winner and a RITA Award finalist. An author,” — Mary Connealy Copy Share Image
“Writing is an amazing thing. Because paper doesn't tell you to shut up, never ever EVER.” — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone. — Jennifer Niven Copy Share Image
I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
I'm always writing from some difficult place and seeing how the character survives... or doesn't. — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table.… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The dirty little secret of publishing is that, all along, each book sold has had an average of 5 readers. That's an… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Even when it comes to writing fiction, how do you encompass all this stuff that's right on the tip of your tongue?… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff. — Wells Tower Copy Share Image
What I've always said was, hang in there, let me write what I want to write, and you'll probably like it. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“It's wonderful to look back at our old writing and cringe. It simply means we have grown and can write better now.… — Jeanne Voelker Copy Share Image
I think that writers are best served by sticking to their writing. Not having loads of theories about the best way to… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts,… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“You know a book is well-written when it makes you read it over and over again, and in every time you enjoy… — Noora Ahmed Alsuwaidi Copy Share Image
And then writing, it was like I just found it, you know? Like you just found your favorite flavor of ice cream,… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
When I was nine years old, I wrote a short story called 'How to Build a Snowman,' from which no practical snowperson-crafting… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I think having a vision can make someone an influential man. I'm not talking about acting or anything like that, I'm talking… — Benicio Del Toro Copy Share Image
Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
