I personally feel the most vulnerable when I write. That's where I learned to tell the truth when I was young. — Jewel Copy Share Image
When I write, I love finding connections between ideas. When the connections are plentiful and strong, then I know it's a pretty… — William Gurstelle Copy Share Image
I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Literature is not a game for the cloistered elect. Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Flowers don't tell, they show. That's the way good books should be too."--Stephanie Skeem. Author of Flotsam” — Stephanie Skeem Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll be writing something, and I say to myself, 'Okay, that's definitely DTB,' or, 'It's definitely Strapping.' — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
I sense people expect something to show for ten years. But I do feel like it is dense. Some of my own… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
You can tell when a writer moves out of a place of struggle and into a place of comfort, and it's always… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“I happen to believe that the deepest value of fiction is that, in its very fictiveness, it is the one arena where… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
The old handbook on writing is 'Write what you know.' I come from an autobiographical starting place almost all of the time,… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
I think as a young person, leaving high school or college, you're like, 'All right, all right, enough already.' But now there's… — Phillipa Soo Copy Share Image
“Writing can be a lifeline, expecially when your existence has been denied, especially when you have been left on the margins, especially… — Micere Mugo Copy Share Image
“I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Burroughs called his greatest novel Naked Lunch, by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. He's… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it.… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The habit of committing our thoughts to writing is a powerful means of expanding the mind, and producing a logical and systematic… — William Blaikie Copy Share Image
Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Writers who open up horizons for other people are performing a function every bit as important as a consciously politicized writer. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's impossible to say certain things ... Writing is something needed by man to share experience.” — Arnost Lustig Copy Share Image
I learned to distrust writers who talked about how they squeezed the blood onto the typewriter. They just don't want you to… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
I'm just trusting my intuition and my taste and writing it quickly - I'm glad people are gravitating towards feelings. — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
Most writers are secretly worried that they're not really writers. That it's all been happenstance, something came together randomly, the letters came… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“I always wanted to write a book, but it looked really hard: how did you get all the lines to come out… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
As a writer of fiction, I spend my days inventing real lives for make-believe people; what I create can only seem real. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“People ask what's up with this writing business? What do I hope to accomplish? I tell 'em I'm just a brick mason;… — Quentin R. Bufogle Copy Share Image
“All serious and good writing anticipates precisely this kind of reading-ruminative and leisurely, a dalliance with words in contrast to wolfing down… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
It's a weird business. You're trying to write something that's built on magic, which is pretty stressful. — Andy Grammer Copy Share Image
Although I did admire David Foster Wallace's final unfinished novel about boredom, I'm no DFW, and I want my books to be… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world. — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure. — Felix Riesenberg Copy Share Image
The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
Incarcerated individuals want what most people want in a novel: good, honest writing and a story well told. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
“Not everyone is meant to be a writer," Shyla said. "I do believe, however, that everyone has a story within them to… — Barbara Casey Copy Share Image
“A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has… — Spencer Tracy Copy Share Image
