I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn't get into the mind… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I never know what the hell I'm writing about, I never know what the next thing I'm writing about is, I never… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“Read people by their surroundings, their personally designed environments. Like external body language, a room and how its arranged tells you things… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Writing is my therapy. In addition to my real therapy. God knows where I'd be without it. I'd probably still be at… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
“Writing is not a noun, it’s a verb. Writing is not a destination, it’s a journey. You should not write to accomplish… — Rodney L. Carlson Copy Share Image
Most of the really fun books that are doing various dialects are also inventing things themselves - they're not pure pastiche. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
When you start to write, things begin to come into focus in a way they don't when you're not writing. It's a… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Because being CEO can feel lonely, I journal religiously as a way to express my thoughts, feelings and aspirations. Looking back at… — Rana el Kaliouby Copy Share Image
I'm in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
There is Harlan Ellison the human being, who takes a crap a couple of times a day, and who farts, and who… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“Life is like a book starts with title similar to your personal names, begins to give you pleasure with each and every… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“To write entire pages of dazzling prose about a tomato -- for Pierre Arthens reviews food as if he were telling a… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Oh writer! An Angel watches over all you write. Make your writing meaningful for it will eventually return to you and you… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
It's very simple. If you learn how to write well, to write with depth, cream will rise to the top. You'll get… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
Music and books were my inspiration too. I read avidly as a kid. And that's the beautiful thing about books and music… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
You know that gap between where you are and where you'd like to be? Within that gap, there is an ache and… — Amanda Harlech Copy Share Image
No writer can be the 'Master of the Words' without loving them! Loving is the way for Mastering! No Love, no Master! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Some people just need to read and think, to spend time alone sorting through the stories in their heads” — Ronald T. Potter-Efron Copy Share Image
I always wrote about myself in the third person. I knew how to promote myself so it sounded intelligent. I know how… — Lisa Lampanelli Copy Share Image
I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels. — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“And a second thank you to my genius editor, Julian Pavia, who pushed me as hard as I’ve ever been pushed and… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
“So many signs exist today that you could write a book about them. In fact, I did, The Beginning of the End,… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books… — Jason Marsden Copy Share Image
“Even when not in the act of writing Muscatine a letter, I was often composing one in my mind, situating the words… — Timothy Schaffert Copy Share Image
The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that.… — Adam Scott Copy Share Image
“Books are merely translations of our emotions into words that allow us to connect on an almost blood transfusion level.” — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
[Writing] is harder than you think. You'll be rejected often. If you do it for money, you'll quit. Love it or don't… — Paul S. Kemp Copy Share Image
To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Ultimately what I try to do is work on stories I love with people I admire, and sometimes they get made and… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
![“There is Harlan Ellison the human being, who takes a crap a couple of times a day, and who farts, and who eats chicken croquettes, if I can find them. And then there is the writer, this writer-person, who is a much finer person than I. Much more orderly, much more meaningful. Worthier, than I [am].” quote by Harlan Ellison](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/091/harlan-ellison-2133_chickens_there-is-harlan-ellison-the-human-being_2766268.jpg)
![“[Writing] is harder than you think. You'll be rejected often. If you do it for money, you'll quit. Love it or don't do it.” quote by Paul S. Kemp](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/d95/paul-s-kemp-13349_harder_writing-is-harder-than-you-think-you-ll_1922622.jpg)
