Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“My lips are fierce with passion. My heart spins fiery beats. A rhythm lives within my fingers and dances in my feet.” — Jamie Weise Copy Share Image
Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence. — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
There's something I find highly embarrassing about it. As soon as I think I've written something smart, the next day I've got… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
“Even though I know my own name (barely), I still sometimes write my name wrong. Usually it only happens when I write… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life. — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it,… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
“The skill, the art of literacy is a gift. To read is to watch in your mind as a single word explodes… — Stephen Cosgrove Copy Share Image
I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
A novel requires a certain kind of world building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
The mystique and the false glamour of the writing profession grow partly out of a mistaken belief that people who can express… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the images to understand what is happening,… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability. — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
“Leases, writes, statutes, all are written to be read and each person reads them by the light of self-interest.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I write what I write and I honestly don't care if it gets on or not. I'm writing to see if I… — Larry Gelbart Copy Share Image
You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There's a facility in that kind of writing. — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded,… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
“It's heartbreaking when you love a book that fails. And it always seems to happen to the nicest authors.” — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
People are rushed and inspired by the success of Indian writers, and are falling over themselves to write novels. Every Indian is… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life,… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the most constructive thing women can do is to write, for in the act of writing we deny our muteness and… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
It's a very powerful, emotional thing to read a book, and to reduce it to a series of questions in a test… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“You're such a bookworm," Fenn said, shaking his head as he counted the books in my hand. "No," I corrected "I just… — Candace Knoebel Copy Share Image
I think that any writer who is commercial, who sells a lot of books, has to face criticism. Because the more hermetic… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Your book grows. The early part of your book is growing still while you are writing the later part of your book. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
My children's books are written on the belief that every child has a talent and a passion. Each story unfolds into an… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
One of my favorite books is 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' by George Orwell, and 'Catcher in the Rye,' obviously, is a big influence and… — Hozier Copy Share Image
Especially since having children, a lot of the time if you ask me, 'Have you read that book?' the answer would be… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Sometimes life just seems like chapters. Some good, some bad, but all come together to create the story of our lives. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“e-reader (i.e., a portable replacement for physical books), this is the go-to, standard-setting device." - Engadget” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On the 'Star,' you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Writing on my own versus co-writing kind of is the exact same thing because we don't sit in the same room when… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
