“He simply could not write a further word. Writer’s block, he thought. It happens to the most brilliant of writers.” — Sharon Maas Copy Share Image
Mollie Hunter was both a great friend and a very fine writer for children. She was fascinated by Scotland's history and its… — Joan Lingard Copy Share Image
“Reading is a respite from the restlessness of technology, but it's not only that. It's how I reset and recharge. It's how… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
No male writer is likely to be asked to sit on a panel addressing itself to the special problems of a male… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It is a happy day when I am asked to publicly recommend a book. It is also a dilemma. When I consider… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
If I really knew how to do good storytelling, I would be a writer. Mystery is not a huge part of it.… — Scott Cohen Copy Share Image
This book was written in those long hours I spent waiting for my wife to get dressed to go out. And if… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed… — Ngaio Marsh Copy Share Image
The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“That's the real distinction between people: not between those who have secrets and those who don't, but between those who want to… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
It was not a choice of writing or not writing. It was a choice of loving my life or not loving my… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Reading was my only escape from reality. Through books, I could be whoever I wanted. I could fall in love with the… — Teresa Mummert Copy Share Image
“take details from “real life” into fiction and make them believable requires careful work: creating characters the reader can believe would do… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I'm reading Our Ecstatic Days, by Steve Erickson. It's an extraordinary journey and the most exciting thing I've found since The Master… — Sienna Guillory Copy Share Image
Writing about a place is, of course, one good way of feeling close to it, feeling you have made something out of… — Sean Michael Wilson Copy Share Image
So, there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“I write for myself first and foremost, but I hope that others will enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing… — Shannon DuBey Copy Share Image
“As someone who has to teach for a living, I shouldn't be saying this, but the planet can do quite well without… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I still find it difficult to cope with the solitude of writing. I often crave the feedback of working with a team. — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
I was reading at a third-grade level until the age of 30 before I made the decision that I was going to… — Diamond Dallas Page Copy Share Image
A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Mary Jo Putney is a gifted writer with an intuitive understanding of what makes romances work. I loved Silk and Shadows, couldn't… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Then I thought of reading—the nice and subtle happiness of reading. This was enough, this joy not dulled by Age, this polite… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London. — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
I love being a writer. I am very lucky my life's ambition turned out to be just as much fun as I… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I cannot and don't really want to control my mind, soul, or heart when I write and must recognize that I don't… — Lidija Dimkovska Copy Share Image
General writing about science, even if we do it badly, helps us to see our work in perspective and broadens our vision. — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create. — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
I used to write books and plays in my mind, but I doubt that any of them would have been above the… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
I always tell people I write songs, but I'm a writer. It's a difference. I can write songs to music, but I… — Ester Dean Copy Share Image
The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
Why writers write I do not know. As well ask why a hen lays an egg or why a cow stands patiently… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I've done well because I'm lucky and I'm willing to be collaborative with the one thing you don't want to be collaborative… — James Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
