Well, it's my voice, so it's more accessible that way, and there are also all sorts of things like plot and timelines… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I think it's important to let each thing you write teach you how to write it. You must listen to what you… — Jill Alexander Essbaum Copy Share Image
As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Every book should be read no more slowly than it deserves, and no more quickly than you can read it with satisfaction… — Charles Van Doren Copy Share Image
When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book… — Vinny Guadagnino Copy Share Image
“It's why I am a writer...To avoid the narrow mesh of Mrs Winterson's story I had to be able to tell my… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I want readers turning pages until three o'clock in the morning. I want the themes of books to stick around for a… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“Lists of books we re-read and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, 'Read,' but a writer… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“They ended up at the Old Corner Bookstore, which Brian had read about in a tour guide to Boston. "Longfellow and Hawthorne… — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
“Q: Do you have any advice for upcoming writers who want to pen weird stories? A: READ, damn it. Fill your brain… — T.E. Grau Copy Share Image
I kind of dislike 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' but most of Hemingway in general, mainly because his stylistic shenanigans ruined so… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
In an age of never-ending health fads, it's comforting to learn that one of the healthiest activities you can do has existed… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
The best training is to read and write, no matter what. Don't live with a lover or roommate who doesn't respect your… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I know how hard authors work on their books and how far out of their element many are when it comes to… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
I don't ever think about the utility of fiction. I don't believe in it or certainly don't require anybody to consider it.… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I'll never retire. They'll have to take my computer out of my cold, dead hands. I'm addicted to writing. I feel physically… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable. — Don Henley Copy Share Image
The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I collect books, and I love libraries. I love bookstores. And to me meeting a writer is important. And when I saw… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Digital doesn't interest me. It's too many steps removed from the actual tactile thing. I still read books. I don't read online. — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that… — Avi Copy Share Image
More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have… — John Irving Copy Share Image
An author needs to be in the market. He or she needs to come out with a new book every year. That… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
“For a more detailed discussion of the subject, read Neal and Jana Hallford’s Swords and Circuitry (Hallford and Hallford, 2001).” — Ernest Adams Copy Share Image
I found when I was really little that my instinct was to write before talking to other people about the way that… — Gracie Abrams Copy Share Image
Writing is the perfect balance between self-confidence and self-doubt, with a bit of self-delusion thrown in. — Judith Kelman Copy Share Image
Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I do, in fact, have a book club. I meet with a couple of guys once a month of a lunchtime discussion… — David Liss Copy Share Image
Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
My natural inclination is to think in scenes. So that's how I write, and the issue for me is usually: what to… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
When writing fiction, you only have to know enough to be convincing on the page. I mean really convincing, of course -… — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
“While some people are good at painting, playing an instrument or singing, I have been told more than once I am good… — Eric Arrouze Copy Share Image
Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
“Writers, in essence, are professional word tamers; if the words walking down the lines were living creatures, they would surely fear and… — Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Copy Share Image
