“Good writers are avid readers. They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks,” — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Keep a journal of disappointments, failures, and self-destructive actions. It’s important to write this down because these are the kinds of things… — Richard O'Connor Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, you've chosen art as a way of life. You must accept that some will like your work and… — Mark Rubinstein Copy Share Image
I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
“The most profound, life-altering gift you can offer the Indie writer you love is to TELL as MANY avid readers as you… — R.S. Guthrie Copy Share Image
. . . finally, I couldn't imagine how I could live without books, and I stopped dreaming about marrying that Chinese prince. . . . — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I had this grand plan for writing the history of the United States in six volumes. This was in the mid-1990s; I… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Most writers need to write. I write for money, really. If I won the lottery, I would never write another word. I… — Clarissa Dickson Wright Copy Share Image
“Books are important, and so serious intellectual attention to them is important. While promplty published scholarly articles are also important, the book… — Jeffrey C. Issac Editor-in-Chief Perspectives on Politics 12 2013 Copy Share Image
I don't take notes. I don't have any notebooks. I keep on trying to do that because it seems like a very… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“there is an osmosis from fiction to reality, a constant contamination which distorts the truth behind both and fuzzes the telling distinctions… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
I don't think you could teach someone to be a genius, but you can certainly teach them to not make rookie mistakes… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
My writing partner and I usually write separately, because if we write together we are liable to go a little nuts. The… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
I was only ever part of 'Lost' - a very small part of an extremely talented writers' room, where as a writer,… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Editing can feel incredibly burdensome for self-published authors when you are tasked to reread your work, for what feels like, a thousand… — Robin S. Baker Copy Share Image
“It is dangerous to condemn stories as junk which satisfy the deep hunger of millions of people. These books are not literary… — Judith Skelton-Grant Copy Share Image
Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
A cool thing about enthusiast press is the low barrier to entry. Anyone can decide they want to set out on this… — Zoe Quinn Copy Share Image
A change of work is a good rest for the mind if you're constantly focused on writing. I like to work with… — Angus Stone Copy Share Image
I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
The fluent reader sounds good, is easy to listen to, and reads with enough expression to help the listener understand and enjoy… — Charles Clark Copy Share Image
“Every book is a time machine, a flying carpet, a passport to the most powerful nation in the world… your imagi-nation!” — Mike Thaler Copy Share Image
I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I don't believe other people are ever as foolishly excited as I am while I'm working. How could they be? Writers would… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have never believed in the axiom that a writer should first and foremost write about what he knows. I think it’s… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
I'd chosen to dedicate my life to writing, and I asked myself, 'if you write your whole life, and nobody ever sees… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers… — George V Higgins Copy Share Image
In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on… — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I… — Kim Smith Copy Share Image
Being in a room with other people's energy yields such a different result. I love writing by myself still, but there's something… — Ingrid Michaelson Copy Share Image
I certainly don't condemn anyone who listens to audiobooks. It seems to me that any way we get good literature in our… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
When I read Doctor Sleep, when it was first published, I was so taken with getting to spend time with Danny Torrance… — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell stories,… — Dario Argento Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“A book's a strange thing. It's ideas, feelings. It's fragile and complicated. You can't make them like refrigerators or cars.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
