If I don't know who I'm writing for, I make it up and pick somebody I'm writing for. That's really the only… — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image
At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
This is what I think: If you had the nerve to live what you lived, you should have the nerve to write… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
What has stayed true in my life as a writer is my dedication to writing - I try to write every day,… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
I haven't had the time to do a lot of writing. But nothing's really changed about me. It's just my day-to-day activities… — D'Angelo Copy Share Image
If you're a Norwegian writer, you are not visible in the world. The door of the English language is very hard to… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
“Don't let yourself be amazed by the imagination of a writer and his words, writers are almost all the time in a… — Nema Al-Araby Copy Share Image
Writing a memoir isn't particularly interesting to me. I'm not like Ellen [DeGeneres], where I can write, 'Water bottles--they're crazy!' and it's… — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
“If you're writing primarily for one person besides yourself, I'd advise you pay very close attention to that person's opinion (I know… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Books are our windows on the world. They permit us to safely experience other lives and ways of thinking and feeling. Books… — Harry Mazer Copy Share Image
The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The Strand prides itself for its '18 miles of books,' and they are not kidding - that store goes on for da-a-a-a-ys.… — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
“from a most kind suggestion put to me by Mr Farraday himself one afternoon almost a fortnight ago, when I had been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writing was never work for me. It had been the same for as long as I could remember: turn on the radio… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“My own schedule is pretty clear-cut. Mornings belong to whatever is new – the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Writers do well to carefully attend to those moments of inspiration, because chances are that they're writing from a very deep place.… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I have a background writing screenplays and teleplays. I've tried to write prose and fiction but never really completed anything I thought… — Michael Imperioli Copy Share Image
I've chosen television because of the quality of material that I'm offered, not being a writer, so I've turned a lot of… — David Nutter Copy Share Image
He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's nice to live in a country that has its priorities straight: the library's open three hours a week, and the House… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
Writers perform an extremely important role: they make others dream, those who are unable to dream for themselves. And everyone needs to… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I guess I feel it's funny to be looked to for advice on writing when I am still taking in so much… — Becky Albertalli Copy Share Image
There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
As a writer, you want to go somewhere else sometimes. You want to vary the terrain that you're exploring. — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life,… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
I feel like it's a really natural part of writing: You lose perspective, and you have to let it go sometimes in… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
It can be depressing when no one takes interest, and a lack of response makes the writer question why theyre writing at… — Lizz Clements Copy Share Image
I've always liked an easygoing, colloquial style. I like the kind of reviewer who is essentially a fellow reader, an enthusiast, a… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
“Maybe authors shouldn't write more than one or two books. Maybe you just keep writing the same book over and over anyway.” — Adam Langer Copy Share Image
“The old lady goes back to her paperback (it's Fifty Shades of Grey, and not her first trip through it, from the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm a full-time writer, which means I have the entire day to get my work done. But that can also be bad,… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“May be its a good idea to write something about you in my book... At least then, there will be a place… — Anamika Mishra Copy Share Image
I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule. — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
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