Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition. — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more. — Cynthia Weil Copy Share Image
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Writing a graphic novel is hard. It feels closer to a screen play than to a novel. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Writing screenplays is incredibly hard. I can't call it joy. Writing Novels? Joy. Directing? Joy. Writing Screenplays? That's where you pay all… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I feel empowered to be a different kind of writer. The longer I stay here, the more light filters into my work.… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers,… — Eva Zeisel Copy Share Image
“Writers, to my way of thinking, are no more free in their choices than most people. Our material chooses us; certain things… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things… — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
You have to know writing styles well before you can copy them - and then incorporate parts of them into your own… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk,… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“One of the results of this self-examination — for that is what the writing of this book amounts to — is the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Why not admit that my dissatisfaction reveals an excessive ambition, perhaps a megalomaniac delirium? For the writer who wants to annul himself… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The ideal audience the poet imagines consists of the beautiful who go to bed with him, the powerful who invite him to… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Keep your head down, avoid all the distractions of being a writer todayall the shifts in the business, all the drama, all… — Jeff Abbott Copy Share Image
I think it's more difficult writing what it's like to be a child. You can pretend you know what it's like, but… — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
The Dream Lover is a historical novel at once expansively researched yet intimately imagined. George Sand may be the ultimate Berg heroine.… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
