Remember you love writing. It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t. If the love fades, do what you need to and… — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Life being so short, and the possible books to write so many, it's good to function by night as well as by… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“To my fellow authors heed these words with much importance, " It is redundant for a true writer to sell their soul… — Marcus G Monroe Copy Share Image
“You can tell you're reading a really good book when you forget all about everything else and know you'll die if you… — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
“[Veda:] 'Sure. Let me put these [books] back and we can go.' Cora looked at the number of volumes on the table… — Jessica Lave Copy Share Image
I know that my only chance at any kind of depth or profundity is to linger within the story, trying to make… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I didn't realize at the time that if I wrote about something, I was going to have to talk about something. A… — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
Don't start writing your novel until you know your characters very, very well. What they'd do if they saw somebody shoplifting. What… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
Believe in your own identity and your own opinions. Proceed with confidence, generating it, if necessary, by pure willpower. Writing is an… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“but when you held one of those volumes in your hands, you were leafing through another person’s life. Someone else had once… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“You know I didn't start writing books until after I left Søren. I could barely get out of bed that first month.… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
Tips for aspiring writers: don't be afraid of writing rubbish. It's very easy to become hypnotised by an empty page or screen.… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“slam the book against the wall with a thud, immediately pushing my hand against the front cover so at to ensure maximum… — Amy Cross Copy Share Image
As a historically voracious reader - pre-baby, I averaged a book every week or two, and when I was a kid, I'd… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“Soon after my husband and I started living together, he learned to make noise before coming into my writing space. He learned… — Marcia Golub Copy Share Image
'Two' is not written in the usual style of a novel. It's a straightforward, linear narrative of my times, as I observed… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Writing about craft has forced me to think more about my own writing technique, and to break down my process in ways… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
When you're writing a book, you don't want it to be overly trendy because you want people to enjoy it for years… — Lauren Conrad Copy Share Image
We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends. — Alfred Armand Montapert Copy Share Image
“A great book is the one you dive in and swim until there is no air left, but you keep swimming, forgetting… — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have good and evil in one… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
It's what all writers dream of, that our work finds a measure of immortality that long outlives the words of any critic. — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
The ability to be present with every single person and engage was a great model for me of the work that a… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a… — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
“Being a writer is 1% inspiration, 50% perspiration and 49% explaining you're not a millionaire like J.K.Rowling.” — Gabrielle Tozer Copy Share Image
To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
I was left with myself and had to do the one thing I could to survive. I knew it would be difficult… — Frederick Seidel Copy Share Image
The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It makes it easier to adapt a book that is popular with kids because of how excited they are about the project;… — Dylan O'Brien Copy Share Image
First thing, I throw on some jeans, a T-shirt and my Keds sneakers and make coffee. That is actually my favorite time… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
Sometimes I do work on a longer manuscript in tandem with one or two shorter pieces - whether it's a short story… — Christine Sneed Copy Share Image
“And please return it. You may think this a strange request, but I find that although my friends are poor arithmeticians, they… — Sir Walter Scott Copy Share Image
That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There were also very special or dangerous items that had to be fetched in person, or even by large parties of armed… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
When you're writing something and you know it's good, you get flushed, you can feel the blood coursing through your veins, you… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
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