Right now, writing for me is most rewarding because I'm old enough now to have something to say, which probably wasn't always… — Douglas Wood Copy Share Image
You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I like when the manuscript keeps its authentic style and form, so even if I have accepted some advice from editors, I… — Lidija Dimkovska Copy Share Image
I know that whatever power Shelby Steele has always comes out of the writing. I'm not the greatest television pundit or the… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Publishers are humane men, and rarely commit crimes. Authors, however, are a hardened set, who usually perpertrate a felony every time they… — Robert Barr Copy Share Image
Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
I like a book. I like to read for four hours at a stretch. I think very few are the young people… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
“This leads me to the contention that simply messing around with books is one of the very best ways to pass time… — Julie Rugg Copy Share Image
A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
In the summer of 1791, I gave up my concern in the 'New Annual Register,' the historical part of which I had… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I think there's a fine line between being so obtuse that you lose the reader completely, which is the intention for some… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing is just to write. It sounds so simple, but sometimes it's not. You can get so… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Am I making something worth while? I’m not sure. I write and I sing and I hear words from time to time… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I'm not typing. I write only by longhand. I've always written first drafts by hand and then once I was into a… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles. — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Keep your paragraphs short. Writing is visual - it catches the eye before it has a chance to catch the brain. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
When I first started out writing the 'Darkness' books, there was, at least in my mind, a certain sort of rulebook we… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Someone putting down $25 of his or her hard-earned money to buy my product, then doing it again because they felt the… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
I was obsessed with the Canadian novel 'Anne of Green Gables'. I decided I was Anne of Green Gables. There was something… — Christina Hendricks Copy Share Image
For me my big dream that I would like to achieve is for each book to be better than the books that… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is an adventure: it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a… — Marilyn Ross Copy Share Image
“Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“A writer of classic prose must simulate two experiences: showing the reader something in the world, and engaging her in conversation.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
If you want to take writing on, you should pay writing the respect it deserves, which is to say, reading it. — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
I've been gratified to see over the twenty or so years of my writing life the West become less of a colony… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
I know, speaking for myself, no matter what I'm able to do, no matter what book comes out and ends up on… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive. — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
“In the industry, trying out new genres is not always encouraged but what I've discovered is that as a writer, a jaunt… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“I've heard they have this thing called e-readers these days.” “I know that. I've never left the planet.” — Lina Andersson Copy Share Image
And the truth is that if a writer is successful, you gain readers. It benefits all the writers. It's important for all… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“She smiles again at the thought of all those pages. Since then, she has discovered that her life can be made much… — Antonio Iturbe Copy Share Image
I am interested in people. I'm interested in telling stories, whether that is behind the camera or in front of the camera. — Amanda de Cadenet Copy Share Image
