When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel. — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Love Has Forgotten No One is not really a book—rather, it’s a portal, a transport system, a rearranging of the mind. When… — Gary R. Renard Copy Share Image
When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came… — George Stephen Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Our lives are greatly enriched when we immerse ourselves in literature and spiritual writing, not because we are going to be tested… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had someone ask me, they thought I was doing a kids' book for some reason. I think my book reads like… — Nate Bargatze Copy Share Image
It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness. — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
“Leopard People read books by everybody and everything. We look outside and inside. But you have to be secure with yourself to… — Nnedi Okorafor Copy Share Image
“I love to write, and I love to read too, but that doesn't mean I like to write about reading - 'cause… — Kevin Emerson Copy Share Image
What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies…Fiction is democratic, it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In books there are chapters to separate out the moments, to show that time is going by and things are changing, and… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
I sometimes have to think about that because if I think about these five things and think of them all, I'll drop… — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
There are writers, and I know some of them, who are very disciplined. Who write, like, four pages a day, every day.… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Of course, to publish something, you have to write it, polish it, then hire out the line editing, copy editing and cover… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
“For every work of fiction, the author inserts a bit of themself to make the story seem more real. For every work… — A.K. Wallace Copy Share Image
One of the things when you're drawing a comic book is that you're spending four or five times as long to draw… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
“Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.” — Patricia Fuller Copy Share Image
“Keep reading. Read during your break at work, before bed, on the bus, in the waiting room. Read at the table, in… — Bookeworm94 Copy Share Image
I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“I’ve been reading a heap too—not swimming. I don’t swim. I like baths, though, and they allow the added bonus of being… — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out,… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
I would never make up a character who didn't exist or an event that didn't transpire. If you're a real writer, you… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
I just I love telling stories and as long as I can make my living doing that in all the different mediums… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Writing is physical work. It's sweaty work. You just can't will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work… — Wil Haygood Copy Share Image
“Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus?” Bellow quipped. Tolstoy was “white,” and so Tolstoy “mattered,” like everything else that was white… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores. — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
A status symbol is a book. A very easy book to read is The Catcher in the Rye. Walk around with that… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
“When you write your memoir you will understand, perhaps for the first time, the significance of your life through the language, images… — Maureen Murdock Copy Share Image
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
It's not easy. I got lots of rejections when I first started out. If you want to write, you have to believe… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way. — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
My favorite aspect of being an author has always been visiting different communities and meeting my readers face to face. — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“I was born to use papers and books to speak up. I was born to use my pen to defend my views… — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
