What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
The uncut diaries are 16 million words. It's very tiring to do your diary every night before you go to bed. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“You felt as though the book took as much interest in you as you did in it and was willing to help… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Most of my life is just spent lying in bed. I mean, it's enough pressure to write the words. Do I need… — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
“It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
At most, I may write when I am disturbed by something. I have recently discovered the pleasure of finding written answers to… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
A couple months after my heart attack, fifty-seven years after I'd given it up, I started to write again. I did it… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the… — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
Like, every couple of months you read, they rewrite, you come back in, they've animated more stuff - they usually videotape you… — John Goodman Copy Share Image
I've known several cases of writers who decide to write about something and they research the hell out of it and when… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“If you're a writer, you'll know it by the distinct feeling of only being able to breathe properly when alone with your… — Karen Luellen Copy Share Image
It occurs to me that, after the huge output of writing I've produced over the years, there is a close link between… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
I'm always struck with writing - I constantly feel like I don't know what I'm doing and I'm starting over. — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I don't know the nuts and bolts of writing. I studied medicine. I was a pre-med nerd. So everything I learned, I… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in… — Charles Anthon Copy Share Image
“My job takes up many daylight hours, it wakes me in the still of night and fills my head with ghosts and… — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
“it was a genuine pleasure to research and write about a woman from whom, as Life magazine correspondent David Zeitlin put it,… — Estella M. Chung Copy Share Image
Part of my mind is working on how to end the thing while I'm going on. You need at least two brains… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“If your author platform is not well built, you may lose readers to an inferior product that was simply easier to find… — Carole Jelen Copy Share Image
Do not slip into writing for the mind and the mind alone. In other words, do not play merely upon our ability… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“That night, Hallie was relieved when Linda Soares, the town librarian who'd spent years trying to impress Nick with her low-cut shirts… — Patry Francis Copy Share Image
If fiction changes things, it's usually because it's a powerful way of exploring social issues. And it helps us to understand people… — Gillian Cross Copy Share Image
“Bill is a fiction writer, but he writes in the first-person voice in a style that is tell-all confessional; in fact, his… — John Irving Copy Share Image
You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think that all writers feel alienated. ... I know that I do. ... I still feel, as I think most creative… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and… — David Shields Copy Share Image
“Even the ancient mariner, with his wonderful tale, succeeded in stopping only one of three! No book is for everybody.” — Leon Garfield Copy Share Image
The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
For everyone I know who is a writer, there was some awkward time in their lives when they had to learn to… — James Bernard Frost Copy Share Image
I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
