Paul Auster is my favourite writer, and I'm sure he'd be a very interesting person to share a journey with. — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
If you want to write, do two things - read lots of books and also, in your own writing, practise. Just write… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Even though I have this solid career in picture books, I've not only been thinking about kids - because I don't think… — David Small Copy Share Image
I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Writing an op-ed feels like I'm taking the SAT. It's so hard. It feels like homework. And if it feels like homework,… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Genuine bravery for a writer... It is about calmly speaking the truth when everyone else is silenced, when the truth cannot be… — Murong Xuecun Copy Share Image
I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create fabric in the world that often appears… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Rosanne Daryl Thomas's tale of her enchantment by bees is a delight to read. It also contains close observations of the natural… — Janet Lembke Copy Share Image
“Why do you think I'm reading this? But you know—though maybe you have different standards for what constitutes 'interesting' than I do—there's… — Natsuhiko Kyogoku Copy Share Image
William Goldman's Marathon Man was a novel that taught me about suspense. I was maybe 16 years old when I read it… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I love books the way I love nature. ... I can imagine now that a time will come, that it is almost… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“I am a reader, a flashlight-under-the-covers, carries-a-book-everywhere-I-go, don't-look-at-my-Amazon-bill reader. I choose purswes based on whether I can cram a paperback into them,… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
“Some people work for the money they can earn doing what they do. Others work because of a love of what they… — Daniel Kemp Copy Share Image
None of my books are best-sellers. In fact, the only thing that's kept me alive is the books that are in paperback.… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
“Personally, I don't plan to retire from writing. My plan is to visit a body editor, have them slap on a hot… — R. Rose Copy Share Image
I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it's… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you. — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
I think most writers have to have a practice of writing. For me it is very early in the morning. I try… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
It's two A.M. To sleep or to write that is the question? Whether it tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“Sometimes writing is easy. Other times it’s as hard as trying to eat a whole whale, after the whale has just eaten… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Why do we writers write? Is it because we have something to say, or is it because we just do? I write… — Lloyd E. Scott Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you can write about a character's day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just to write about… — Jennifer v Clancy Copy Share Image
Maybe one of the reasons that I don't ever experience myself as having writer's block is I don't feel that I need… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
The public, too, has to make an effort in order to understand the writer who, though he renounce complacent obscurity, cannot always… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Schools and parents can team up to find books that kids will really get excited about - that will make them say,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
I can't help but to write, I have a inner need for it. If I'm not in the middle of some literary… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For better or worse, most of my writing life has been about people that work behind the scenes. I'm interested in finding… — Mark Boal Copy Share Image
Every single one of my books had its title changed almost as we were going to press, for all sorts of different… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
The problem with digital books is that you can always find what you are looking for but you need to go to… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can't let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
