Though I feared I would have no progress when I put down the drink, [my writing] hasn't changed. The creative search, and… — Karl Hyde Copy Share Image
I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young… — James Herriot Copy Share Image
I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that fortunately hasn't proved to be the case and I… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough. — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil. — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
Family matters, friends matter, love matters. Those you love and who love you matter. That's what writing does - it allows you… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“It began to falter not when the book publishers who loved books gave way to those who preferred profits to reading. It… — Al Silverman Copy Share Image
“Grace had read that the Spenser children followed a strictly macrobiotic diet—or that ultimate manifestation of New York real estate porn, the… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
And the reason I am so nervous is that everything I do now is leading me to one of three possible futures...… — Adolfo Bioy Casares Copy Share Image
“Whatever. I’ve never understood what the big deal is about reading.” He shuts the door and locks it, turning for the stairs.… — Jessica Sorensen Copy Share Image
Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution… — Natalie Zemon Davis Copy Share Image
In order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past,… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks.… — Mary Garden Copy Share Image
I think that writers often try too hard in the name of expression, when often it's just a matter of reframing what's… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“You know what they say about writers: we can do it quietly, in many different positions, and all night long.” — Christopher D. Votey Copy Share Image
The ability to be writing towards something that was actually going to be a whole series was a really big lure. — Tim Kring Copy Share Image
Everybody just needs to realize that when you write something you're just in one mood. I was told I needed to write… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
“The library was full of wizards, who care about their books in the same way that ants care about their eggs and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“What are your drawn to?" ... "Language, Words, No, not teaching. Perhaps one day I'll write something.” — Ellen Sussman Copy Share Image
Some of the most untidy writers have also been the most productive. Iris Murdoch, for instance, wrote a good 30 books in… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one's… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
One of the things that takes a bit of getting used to on an American series is having a different director, and… — Gina Bellman Copy Share Image
My bookshelves chiefly function as a snapshot of what I was reading prior to the invention of the Kindle. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
“You can know all about a person from the things they collect, the books on their shelves, the chairs in their parlor.… — Lynda Rutledge Copy Share Image
“She thinks it was Margaret Atwood who said that wanting to meet a writer because you like their work was like wanting… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I have 20 or 30 books completely plotted out in my mind - mysteries, thrillers, horror, romance, science fiction. You name it. — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
The construct of William Gibson the Writer is coming down, and become more open. It's more of a Glasnost - Transparency! Transparency… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.” — Dermot Davis Copy Share Image
A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
I've tried to write in a way that transcends beyond just sexuality and is more about letting go of our fear and… — Calum Scott Copy Share Image
“Vanity's contribution to Fiction in general was an abundance of cheap labour and the occasional blockbuster, which was accepted into Fiction with… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Apart from having ‘National Poet’, ‘National Anthem’ etc., I hope it will not be irrelevant if there is ‘National Writer’ in every… — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
I am an old-fashioned storyteller. I try to make people laugh and cry. A fiction writer's duty is to entertain. If you… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or… — Christopher Koch Copy Share Image
I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
This sort of encouragement is vital for any writer. And lastly the publication of Touching the Flame, which was on hold for… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
As soon as you publish a book and the reader reads it, they're making an extension of your brain with their brain. — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
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