I guess my use-by date is just about up but if I could come back as a storyteller now, I would be… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
There's no path to being a writer that's applicable to everyone. Some young writers have the fortitude to work in a vacuum.… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I… — Louis Begley Copy Share Image
When I was 11, I knew that I wanted to write a kid's book and tell the world what it was like… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I publish six books a year now, which is very exciting. But it keeps me into my typewriter at all times! Now… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
Rejection process is not fun. It's the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“The skill of writing needs much patience, practicing, and time. There is no good writing from a quick effort, or a confused… — Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi Copy Share Image
Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“One of the most interesting parts of writing is that you can think about it all of the time. Writers get their… — Edgardo H Pangilinan Copy Share Image
"Only write what you know" is very good advice. I do my best to stick to it. I wrote about gods and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you want to be a fiction writer, you need to start reading like a fiction writer. To do so, you need… — John McNally Copy Share Image
“Without being aware that I was following in my father’s footsteps, I read, before I went to Cambridge, Mill’s Logic and Political… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
With a computer, you make your changes on the screen and then you print out a clean copy. With a typewriter, you… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“You should read this book’ almost never simply means you should read this book. It is usually far more fraught. Telling someone… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“The thought of people reading in the sun, on a beach, tempts me to recommend dark books, written in the shadow of… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I used to write in a room overlooking the valley from where I could see too much, whether checking the sheep and… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Just at the moment he's writing a book on famine - goodness! it's sad - and there's a dear little Chinese comrade… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Today I write, riots with insite! Tomorrow I read, take the lead! Sometimes I sleep, health to keep! But for now I… — Leslie Austin Copy Share Image
“I will write: for myself, for those who come after, and for the voices that cry out not to be forgotten.” — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
I'm not a speed writer. I write slowly and revise obsessively. The end result tends to be good. That's where my strength… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
No matter how long my day job hours were, I always made time to write. I wrote fiction, short stories, and poetry.… — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
“What broke your heart so bad That you had to close every door, That you say you have a dark soul And… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain,… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
As a writer, I am constantly aware that I take my life in my hands with everything I do and say. It's… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
One is always changing. I don't want to write the same book and I couldn't, because I'm a different person. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events.… — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
Usually, you don't know where a book comes from ... it's just there, some kind of an itch that you can't quite scratch. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life… — James Salter Copy Share Image
If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“For solace at this time of sadness and confusion, Marguerite turned to a source that would remain a refuge to her throughout… — Nancy Goldstone Copy Share Image
Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The business of fiction is the study of the human condition, and gender is something that many humans are obsessed with, thus… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
