Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
A writer is a performer as well. A writer isn't the literary department. That gets tried on but nothing's a script unless… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
There was a sense that there was a lot of word of mouth happening with 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter,' even in hardcover. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
There will be birthdays in the next twelve months; books keep well; they're easy to wrap: buy those books now. Buy replacements… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
So much of my writing process is trying to eliminate any kind of shame or fear of the thoughts that I'm having. — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“In life, you will hear many fantastical and astounding things, what is important is sorting out the fact from the fiction.” — T.B. Christensen Copy Share Image
I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
Reading is a stout-hearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
“Only because books are better than people, Father. ... Because they are masters who instruct without a rod. If you approach them,… — Catherine Jinks Copy Share Image
I was incredibly lucky that my first book found a large and loyal readership. It changed my life - from being a… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
TV showrunners have become known entities to people who watch television in the way that movie directors have been known to filmgoers… — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
When I was kid, they always used to tell me to keep notebooks. I look at my shelves now and it's just… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I always write on unlined typing paper and write the first draft in longhand, using cheap Bic pens. I try to write… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
“Writing. It’s easy work. The equipment isn’t expensive, and you can pursue this occupation anywhere. You make your own hours, mess around… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
“People who still read books were a rare breed—and becoming more rare all the time. God Bless the readers of the world.” — Richard Fenton Copy Share Image
To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Writing a book is the most difficult, anxiety-prone aspect of my life because the words that I put on paper are very… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
I am a storyteller and a researcher, and I'm sorry the world has a hard time straddling the tension of those two… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive. — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
As a writer, I can't really take days off. Writing is like creating an art. Once you stop writing, you can lose… — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost… — George Sand Copy Share Image
To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative. — Erskine Caldwell Copy Share Image
“You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets frustrated. After he pees in it himself, he likes the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
You know, you can be really quite subversive in popular fiction, which is capable of taking on big issues of politics, war,… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
I was still in college when 'To Kill a Mockingbird' came out in 1960. I remember it had a kind of an… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
I love my job, and I love books. I read anything, including cereal boxes. I care deeply about what people think of… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
“The ultimate luxury is to reread: to revisit a book to see how time has treated it, how memory has distorted it,… — Michael Upchurch Copy Share Image
“Writing is a series of verbal suggestions designed to provoke a psychological reaction and an aesthetic experience.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
I asked my secretary how many words per minute she did. She replied, 80. I asked, On the computer or on the telephone? — Robert D Dangoor Copy Share Image
I don't like writing as an expert. I like writing as an amateur. I like writing as an idiot. It's much more… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
I think writers can get too attached to these worlds they create, these characters they make real, so that, instead of ending… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
