Because I'm a novelist, I think in terms of structure. The way I keep going is through structure. It's what inspires me… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“For the writer that has truly suffered, their pen, their words, their art will become as important as breathing.” — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
If you ever go to talk to an editor you don't want to be able to turn down a job because you… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
If you ever go home with somebody and they don't have books in their house, don't sleep with them. I think that's… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I barely ever reread the chapter before posting, because I overthink things, and I feel like overediting or trying to use too… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
Among the numerous requisites that must concur to complete an author, few are of more importance than an early entrance into the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Writing THE LITTLEST HUNTER: THE JOURNEY BEGINS the first book is The Littlest Series. Sharing my stories with everyone allows me to… — John W. Kurtze Copy Share Image
The novel at its nineteenth-century pinnacle was a Judaized novel: George Eliot and Dickens and Tolstoy were all touched by the Jewish… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“He was always being told that writers never become famous or rich, but of course that was not why he wrote, he… — Andrew James Pritchard Copy Share Image
It happened, as many things do, imperceptibly, in many ways at once. I date it - the slow crumbling of my faith,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I've never had a block. I'm talking within the limits of my abilities. But in my own small way, I've had an… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“It is fascinating that Baghdad had more than 100 public libraries in the year 891, Cordoba had 70 public libraries at the… — Balqis Suja Copy Share Image
“Writers get to construct a magical world that readers can visit in thought and extend their stay with imagination.” — Sandra Alex Copy Share Image
“I had to learn to live without you and I couldn't make sense of it, because I left so much of me… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
I'm writing a novel about two actresses who go to New York, because that's what I know about. One has lost touch… — Julie Walters Copy Share Image
I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When you are reading something and you have people pop up in your head you are just sort of stuck with it. — Anne Fletcher Copy Share Image
“Whenever I send a book by parcel post and the clerk at the post office asks me, "Is there anything dangerous in… — Los Angeles Dave Zobel California Copy Share Image
I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S.… — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
If something needed to be written, if something needed to be polished, needed to be re-written, I was just handed pages. — Jane Espenson Copy Share Image
Charles Dickens was an incredibly cinematic writer. He wrote this one hundred years before there were movies. He writes very thematically. It… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance to look into different… — Gillian Cross Copy Share Image
“Always carry with you a pen and a notebook or a journal to write the thoughts that flashes in a moments.” — Lailah GiftyAkita Copy Share Image
Some people may not like me when they have a pen in their hand, so they write what they want. That's fine.… — Darrelle Revis Copy Share Image
I am drawing on a lot of my feelings that are in sync with many people's feelings about facing the last chapter… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
It's fun when you have a whole team of writers that really like writing for someone; you always end up with some… — Adrian Pasdar Copy Share Image
Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
“Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...” — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“All fiction is based on some form of reality—otherwise we would never have the inspiration or knowledge to dream up the realistic… — Rene Folsom Copy Share Image
I had a very realistic expectation of the level of success that it was possible to attain writing romance novels. — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
“The moment that counts most for me is the one that precedes reading. At times a title is enough to kindle in… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about. With all that's going on,… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
