But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems. — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day. — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“Every fucking corner of everything you write is precious, if it isn't why would you write it?” — Theresa Rebeck Copy Share Image
If I'm doing something I know I can pull off, then that's not the book I should be writing. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Writers do not write about a place because they belong there, but because they want to. — Tony Earley Copy Share Image
Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Maybe that's what writers do- Maybe they exaggerate pain just so that you feel okay about what you're feeling.” — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
It's hard out here for a fantasy writer, after all; there's all these 'rules' I'm supposed to follow, or the Fantasy Police… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
I cannot go on… All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
How lucky am I? Quite often I speak at book festivals, and people ask me how I got published. There's people who… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I can't stand it when people say, "If you're writing a novel, you should read this and that." Because it's like giving… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I'm always astonished when I go into Barnes & Noble at the number of people buying books, of course, but also at… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
I'd be surprised if non-fiction writers hate to be interviewed. We all hate them, because there's really nothing to say except "Read… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I'd say, [writing memoir] not so much a model, but maybe to provide an insight, here or there, to help somebody come… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“I was arguing not that everyone should read books by ladies—though shifting the balance matters—but that maybe the whole point of reading… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I established my first writing routine when I was 13. The school year had just ended, and I'd won a stack of… — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share Image
Because I write what I feel the most heavy about. So if there is one day of the week when I feel… — Phoebe Bridgers Copy Share Image
“To write is to objectify dreams, to create an outer world as a material reward [?] of our nature as creators. To… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I think it's just too kinda juicy and compelling to imagine people in their private lives, but then half the time people's… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
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