When I'm writing, I'll just say random stuff that doesn't make sense, and then a certain word that I keep saying will… — Jorja Smith Copy Share Image
In secluding himself too much from society, an author is in danger of losing that intimate acquaintance with life which is the… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The truth is that when you're writing a novel you're really living in it; you're living in the house, and you're living… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go aaaaagghhhh' and everyone just stares at you. But… — Tommy Cooper Copy Share Image
I want to write. I have always wanted to write. I do not care it I am not good at it. I… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
I kept going back while I was writing the novel - which never sold, may it rest in peace - and by… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“A writer is not born but made through study and sheer willpower and ability to embrace beauty and agony.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“It’s always the end of the world,” said Russell Grandinetti, one of Amazon’s top executives. “You could set your watch on it… — Russell Grandinetti Copy Share Image
“[Roland] Barthes turned the thable on the author, saying no only the a book needs a reader to wake it into life,… — Robert Rowland Smith Copy Share Image
And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“Writing is not only a reflection of what one thinks and feels but a rope one weaves with words that can lower… — Phyllis Theroux Copy Share Image
“... and it was quite a sad thing, the way I watched you sleep like nothing could go wrong and I did… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
No, I never really set out to be a stand up. I wanted to be a writer of some sort. I thought… — Josh Widdicombe Copy Share Image
Sharona Muir has written a gripping personal memoir about her odyssey to rediscover and reclaim her father. Along the way she uncovers… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
She had the kids during the day and I would have them at night. That way they were never alone. I would… — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
I try not to recommend too many books, frankly, because I think there's a certain synchronicity that happens when people discover books. — James Redfield Copy Share Image
I like each of my books to be different. Once I've done something I like to move on and push myself to… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
People are falling in love with characters now, and that is why writers are creating such stories. I am really happy that… — Rajkummar Rao Copy Share Image
One of the nicest things is that I still get, very ambiguously, people saying to me, "Oh, I'm just reading your book."… — David Toop Copy Share Image
I start writing, pull whatever images happen to occur to me and make up a story, instead of starting with details that… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
So I had this problem -- work or starve. So I thought I'd combine the two and decided to become a writer. — Robert Bloch Copy Share Image
“All fiction, whether straight or genre, whether literature or Literature, is a personal reinterpretation of its writers’ existence during the time the… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find. — Gabriel Fielding Copy Share Image
I'm terribly afraid of failure. When your identity is wrapped up in writing and you've written something that doesn't work, it's a… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
“But it's one thing to feel that a book can speak beyond its particular time and place to something universal, and another… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
I really never even seriously considered a book but a few years ago someone approached me out of the blue and I… — Mark McNairy Copy Share Image
A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time. — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing, which remark I guess shows I still don't have a pure motive (O it's-such-fun-I-just-can't-stop-who-cares-if-it's-published-or-read)… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment; but it has chapters of clear and triumphant… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.] — Horace Copy Share Image
I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I think writing for anybody helps you order your life. It helps you arrange your emotions and your thoughts and it helps… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
When somebody comes up to you and shows you yellow underlining of something you wrote, that's such a high. It's a connection… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
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