“I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed out my words. I want to get all fucked up and… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“This business of… being a writer is ultimately about asking yourself, ‘How alive am I willing to be?’” —ANNE LAMOTT” — Jeff Goins Copy Share Image
I spend so long writing each of my novels that by the time I'm done with one, I'm ready to discover a… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
“Her book has perhaps been a good one; it has refreshed, refilled, rewarmed her heart; it has set her brain astir, furnished… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I advise those who want to become writers to study veterinary medicine, which is easier. You don't want to be a writer… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Our lives will only be just a book on the shelf... it's up to you to decide whether the pages get turned… — Raina Spencer Copy Share Image
Perhaps, it is just as well to be rash and foolish for a while. If writers were too wise, perhaps no books… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“I began writing late; my first articles and stories were published after I was thirty, and I was motivated by money. Money… — M.V. Carey Copy Share Image
Truth be told, I didn't want to be on T.V. I was going to be a writer or producer or a director,… — Al Roker Copy Share Image
“Your intention is for readers to benefit from your experiences and avoid the costly and time consuming mistakes you may have made.… — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek Copy Share Image
“If you’re working with a writer, chances are you’re an expert. And if you’re an expert, chances are you’re boring. You can’t… — David Litt Copy Share Image
My dad taught me that to be a writer is a decision and a habit. It's not anything lofty, and it doesn't… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Books are almost as individual as friends. There is no earthly use in laying down general laws about them. Some meet the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
“Reading is a source of liberation. Children who are taught to read early on, are commonly taught to communicate in other significant… — Asa Don Brown Copy Share Image
I am furious at all the letters to answer, when all I want to do is think and write poems. ... I… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I have a backlog of novels which I would love to be working on and would be working on if I were… — John Scott Copy Share Image
I wish I could be a better writer, but writing is so difficult. I get seduced by visual aesthetics. Because I just… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
“We're in a strange relationship with our fiction, you see. Sometimes we fear it's taking us over, sometimes we beg to be… — Warren Ellis Planetary Vol. 2 The Fourth Man Copy Share Image
With writing, I think you have to be honest with yourself. I have a certain kind of writing; that is, I like… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
Writing is alone, but I don't think it's lonely. Ask any writer if they feel lonely when they're writing their book, and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is… — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
Feeling intimidated is a good sign. Writing from a place of safety produces stuff that is at best dull and at worst… — Lucy Prebble Copy Share Image
“But even so I can't stop writing even for a day--I'm doing it to save my life. These letters're the first time… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can't help himself. You're talking to him and all of a sudden, you… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
You are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive. — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
David Cristofanos debut novel captures the essence of the human spirit, and delivers a story that is simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking. — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
There are many books in the library. Each book has a wonderful story that will never happen in reality. But as you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I remain committed to telling the stories of women of the African diaspora, particularly those stories that don't often find their way… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent. — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
