“Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
Write something and leave it aside so you've practically forgotten it as much as possible, a month or so, then come back… — Christine Leunens Copy Share Image
People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I tell you this: I'm not an outdoorsman. Actually, one of my things is to pick a little corner in Borders or… — Julius Peppers Copy Share Image
“Reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family; and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my own… — M.T Anderson Copy Share Image
I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
I am very spontaneous when I write; it kind of just comes out. I never think about what I'm going to write… — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
“Novelty. Security. Novelty wouldn't be a bad title. It had the grandness of abstraction, alerting the reader that large and thoughtful things… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
I've always found it best to have a routine. I go to my study at the same time every day and climb… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a girl could be… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
“Libraries really are the gates to the future. So it is unfortunate that, round the world, we observe local authorities seizing the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Before I wrote my first novel, 'The Expats,' I spent nearly two decades at various arms of publishing houses such as Random… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
I'm afraid my closely guarded solitude causes some hurt feelings now and then. But how to explain, without wounding someone, that you… — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking. All conversations with older people contain repetition. Some of the ideas mean… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I really do believe that chance favours a prepared mind. Wallace Stegner, who was one of my teachers when I was at… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
When I was living in Jerusalem, I used to write in a coffee shop called Tmol Shilshom. I'd sit at the same… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“Give me the rights, and I’ll edit and rewrite. Polish you to perfection. But you won’t make best sellers, for you’ll never… — S. Anne Cole Copy Share Image
I have a different purpose in writing each novel. Some of them seem more similar than others, but the purposes are always… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true. — William Golding Copy Share Image
Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
The more stories I told, the more I found I wanted to tell. There was always something left unsaid. I got hooked… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
'The Dovekeepers' is a compelling, beautifully written novel that combines history and fiction into a timeless story of survival and heroism. — Nina Tassler Copy Share Image
“don't start talkin about books or quotin poems at them. these is good folks but they ain't real crazy about readin books.… — William Gay Copy Share Image
I have friends, some of whom are spectacularly good writers, who really want someone to edit them. I don't register that impulse.… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions.” — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
I think I am a creative person, but I'm slightly more kind of visionary...I prefer to guide writers, than to claim to… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words. — Thurston Moore Copy Share Image
I've never really thought in terms of taboos. I think that books can really help parents and kids talk together about difficult… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
For your information, a good novel can change the world. Keep that in mind before you attempt to sit down at a… — John Fante Copy Share Image
I wanted to make my stories, which are inspired by Asian stories, into something fresh, decontextualized - to give them new life… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I have been tossing around the idea of writing some non-fiction. Maybe a collection of short stories about my experience being a… — Melissa Peterman Copy Share Image
Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“The American classicist Edith Hamilton once described the great works of literature, "the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
