I want to make books. I want to take pictures and then write all over the pictures. And then I don't have… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
What I am saying, I suppose, is that you write as if everyone is dead. Then you face the music. I don't… — Lynn Freed Copy Share Image
Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My journals were a clearing house - a garbage can. Once I was writing seriously, I understood that this was the stuff… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
Because I write a book a year, I always want to do one other project every year that's stimulating in a different… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
I've gotten into doing electronic books and audiobooks, so I have an iPad. I still love reading a real book, but when… — Jim James Copy Share Image
I had to write about realistic circumstances. Thats the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Objectifying your own novel while writing it never really helps. Instead, I guess while you're writing you need to think: This is… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“The Library was outmoded and archaic—it had been so even in Ebling Mis's time—but that was all to the good. Pelorat always… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Research serves fiction best when it's dissolved entirely into the work, reprecipitated only to be embodied in characters, images, and the sensual… — Christopher Beha Copy Share Image
So writing is not just writing. It is also having a relationship with other writers. And don't be jealous, especially secretly. That's… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I feel with writing, so much of the time, I don't know how to tap in and be spontaneous and alive on… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
It’s being ready to accept rejection. You can work on a book for two years and get it published, and it’s like… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The books that I do, the stories I write - I'm glad I'm able to do them, but they will quickly be… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
“And as for going into a bookstore and not finding a book suitable for your 13-year-old...maybe you should do some research before… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Ultimately I'm the writer for me, but also, anytime one of my friends gets stuck with a bit, they can call me,… — Ron White Copy Share Image
“As a writer, one spends a lifetime journeying into the heart of language, trying to minimize, if not eliminate, the distance between… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
That is the thing about being a writer; your subject matter may not stay your subject matter if you break their trust… — Greg Fitzsimmons Copy Share Image
I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
“They knew the difference between thoroughness and overkill. It was like Jay Gatsby's library: the books were real, but the pages were… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I don't associate work with feelings of satisfaction. Rather, guilt, frustration, and resentment of people who write better than I do. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I've drunk Amazon's free Diet Coke. Nothing makes more sense to me than a company trying to make bookselling into a profitable… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
In The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson turns 'making the personal public' into a romantic, intellectual wet dream. A gorgeous book, inventive, fearless, and… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
Where I live, it's better to write in the morning because the night is really, really, really dark, and I do believe… — Scott Spencer Copy Share Image
I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“At least things fucking happen in those books, she thought: it's not just people lying in bed and thinking about their fucking… — J. Robert Lennon Copy Share Image
“Library. It's where we lock up all those books before they start giving kids ideas," I said solemnly. "Very dangerous place to… — Scott Tracey Copy Share Image
“The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold onto… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It's just my goal to deliver the best story I can, and I want to make sure each book is better than… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I sort of knew very early on that I wanted to be a writer. Even in high school, I was a big… — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
“When pondering who I am, I write the fiction that I want directly over the facts that I hate. However, what I’ve… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a writer... I… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective.… — Dave Kellett Copy Share Image
I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody… — Sadie Jones Copy Share Image
Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
I love writing novels, even if only a few thousand people read them. Here's my soul; I hope it appeals to your… — Mark O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Novels with a "thesis" don't interest me. They just don't - novels that want to "show" something, that want to "argue" something… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
