I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you.… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Phil was mumbling that Reuben might become a writer after all and writers had a way of "redeeming everything that ever happens… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
That's the horrible thing starting out, you get distracted a lot because anything is easier than writing. It's just the same enemy… — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
Lansens is a willing storyteller… As a writer, she desires a particular kind of reader, one who wants above all to be… — Noah Richler Copy Share Image
With the novels, I try to write a few pages a day - it doesn't sound much, but it can be difficult… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
People who grew up on my books are now able to get the point across to others that they're worth reading. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
“You'd have thought that after twenty years editing murder mysteries I'd have noticed when I found myself in the middle of one.” — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Always be reading. Go to the library. There’s magic in being surrounded by books. Get lost in the stacks. Read bibliographies. It’s… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
The story of my life is not over because of some bad lucks,bad days,difficult situations,i still have a lot of chapters to… — Bakare Copy Share Image
“it is the very nature of the humanities, and in particular the study of literature, to help remind thoughtful people of the… — Gregory Wolfe Copy Share Image
I do find that people are incredibly naive about what it is to be a writer. Like you would pay an incredible… — Faith Adiele Copy Share Image
Having the urge to write a novel, especially if you've yet to be published, is like having a medical condition impossible to… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
I'm not Pollyanna - I know that my personality and my opinions and how I approach the teaching of writing maybe isn't… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
Writing well isn't just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
“...the sixth [eligible lady] perished miserably after returning to me one of my most cherished books with the leaves dog-eared and the… — Roswell Field Copy Share Image
I like to think that I get better and better as a writer, but it seems pretty easy to me to slip… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Nothing, not love, not greed, not passion or hatred, is stronger than a writer's need to change another writer's copy. — Arthur Evans Copy Share Image
“Writing all day every day is good, but it’s not good enough. You need to have your clone ghostwriting for you too.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Write from your heart, write from your soul.. make the best of your talent and don't ever let it go not for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If reality and fiction are equal, then any reality you dont need can just be called delusion. Thats how we do things. — Erika Karisawa Copy Share Image
“I am a writer: to the core of my being, the marrow of my bones. . . to the depth of my… — Valjeanne Jeffers Copy Share Image
Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“ autonomy , n . "I want my books to have their own shelves", you said, and that's how I knew it… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing. — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
“My new book is going well. It’s practically writing itself! Actually, what I mean is I’m not writing it, my clone is.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
This is what I find encouraging about the writing trades: ... They allow lunatics to seem saner than sane. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And if you haven't got a single book, the idea of putting your hand on one is like Christmas and a birthday… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don't be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
If you die without agency as a child, but you have agency in your body [in the novel], how is it to… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
“When I started writing every day, I realized a painful truth: I can’t react and create at the same time. Neither can… — Jeff Goins Copy Share Image
We joke a lot about how, in Hollywood, the writer is one step below the doormat. That's not self-loathing. That's true! — Robert Ben Garant Copy Share Image
when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are .… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Every story holds insight into the writer's soul. If the soul can't be found, the writer didn't bleed enough.” — M.L. Stephens Copy Share Image
It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
“You can't possibly know that you're going to be a writer!" Miss Frost said. "It's not a career choice.” — John Irving Copy Share Image
In 2011, I contributed an essay to Tin House, 'The Dark Side of Dinner Dishes, Laundry, and Child Care,' talking about women… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
To justify an unorthodox life by writing about it is to re-inscribe the original violation, to re-violate masculine turf. — Nancy K. Miller Copy Share Image
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