“Writing is traveling through uncharted territory - your mind. You are the first traveler, and your essays are the world's first maps.” — Harry Bauld Copy Share Image
As a comedy writer, I'm always praying for the day I can tell a self-aware/break-the-fourth-wall style of joke. — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
I've been writing, but I haven't been writing. In my mind I've been saying I want to write, but I haven't actually… — Serena Williams Copy Share Image
I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy. — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
“If only life were like a Jules Verne novel, thinks Marie-Laure, and you could page ahead when you most needed to, and… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk-away from any open flames-to remind yourself that if you don't write daily, you… — George Singleton Copy Share Image
“Leaving any bookstore is hard, especially on a day in August, when the street outside burns and glares, and the books inside… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
A writer writes for writers, a non-writer writes for his next-door neighbor or for the manager of the local bank branch, and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I think when a reader reads a whole book - which takes six to ten hours - that’s kind of a gift… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
No form of art repeats or imitates successfully all that can be said by another; the writer conveys his experience of life… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
You can't write an image, a metaphor, a story, a phrase, without leaning a little further into the shared world, without recognizing… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I tell my students, if you're interested in marine biology or llama farming, follow that string. Yes, it will probably take you… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
The point is, I can’t tell you how to succeed. But I can tell you how not to: Give in to the… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“And besides, I'm not a writer. I don't go to coffeehouses and smoke, wear black, and analyze Sylvia Plath to the point… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
“Well, you mind you manners and don't raise your voice. You know what your mamma used to say. Any book is a… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
My go-to author for knowing it all is Evelyn Waugh. 'A Handful of Dust' is as perfect as a book can get. — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that.… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The normal reaction of a publisher when faced with an author with a bee in his bonnet is to grab the check… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
“Hugo headed off toward the door to leave, but the bookstore was warm and quiet, and the teetering piles of books fascinated… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
With reading, I was very lucky. I had a mother who read to me, not because she had time - she was… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I'm always reading, and you learn a lot by reading. When I was twenty-five, I read a lot, but didn't have much… — Jaume Cabre Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if you can strive your way into a career as a novelist. You have to write books; there are… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“The human condition is such that we can only stomach so much imagination. We need for things to be labeled either fiction… — J. W. Lord Copy Share Image
I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“Reading, by its very nature, is an admission of defeat, a ritual of self-humiliation: it shows that you believe other lives are… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
“Books, including those written by famous authors, may sit unread on forgotten shelves, attracting dust rather than readers’ attention.” — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
“You could write your way into happiness. It might not be the happiness you'd experience if Eldric pushed Leanne from a cliff,… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
Everything is written in my mind, more so due to my lack of vision at this point. After years of vigorous writing,… — Ab-Soul Copy Share Image
When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something,… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“Here stand my books, line upon line They reach the roof, and row by row, They speak of faded tastes of mine,… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
![“The point is, I can’t tell you how to succeed. But I can tell you how not to: Give in to the shame of being rejected and put your manuscript—or painting, song, voice, dance moves, [insert passion here]—in the coffin that is your bedside drawer and close it for good. I guarantee you that it won’t…” quote by Kathryn Stockett](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/6ba/kathryn-stockett-1284_coffins_the-point-is-i-can-t-tell-you-how-to-suc_265835.jpg)
