There's something lovely about writing a book, doing what you want. I love the solitariness of it. — Jane Fallon Copy Share Image
What I like about writing novels is that I'm in my own world for nine months. — Jane Fallon Copy Share Image
I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I find writing really difficult - definitely the most difficult of all the things I do. — Grant Heslov Copy Share Image
“For me writing has always been best when it's intimate, as sexy as skin on skin.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era. — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“The greatest book is one written by your pen, but not exactly from your mind.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Vegas is like the old definition of writing: though I don't enjoy writing, I love having written. Though I didn't enjoy Vegas,… — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Things like guitars and ukuleles, you should never part with it, because there will probably be good, healthy times spent, just playing… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story should break the reader's heart. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
There's so much written about my family, some true, mostly not true, and I felt that it's not something I want to… — Shweta Bachchan Nanda Copy Share Image
“A writer is not a writer because he has written some books. A writer is not a writer because he teaches literature.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Small details are a vital part of allowing a reader to make an imaginative connection with long dead historical figures.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I didn't just write about boys and relationships like usual. I wrote about other things: rock 'n' roll, nostalgia, Hello Kitty. — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
Longhand isn't well suited to my way of writing. I tend to end up with dozens of pages of crossings-out and margin… — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“His copy was full of lofty echoes: Greek Tragedy; Damocle's sword; manna from heaven; the myth of Sisyphus; the last of the… — Tarun J. Tejpal Copy Share Image
Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
There are times when I think being bipolar gives me the ability to see and want and write things that other people… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
If you write for the New Yorker, you always get people critiquing your grammar, you can count on it. So, because a… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
“And why don't you write? Write! Writing is for you, you are for you; your body is yours, take it. I know… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
“I thought of writing a summary about you, but when I finished it was a book.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When I was a child, there were two Nigerian writers in every bookshop: Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka. — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share Image
I can't ever think of writing a book or an autobiography. I'm a little private person. — Randhir Kapoor Copy Share Image
I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a book about the stories, ones that you sit around and tell your friends. — Sean Payton Copy Share Image
The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel. — Camilla Lackberg Copy Share Image
In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
