I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script. — Conrad Hall Copy Share Image
Nay, Sir, those who write in them, write well, in order to be paid well. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to be great. — Elizabeth Meriwether Copy Share Image
Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
You know, it's absolutely connected to The Mollusk in that, it's what we're writing after The Mollusk. A lot of this stuff… — Gene Ween Copy Share Image
I like to go in the corner, in the quiet, 'cause I got to hear my thoughts. If I hear the beat… — Dreezy Copy Share Image
I'm awake as soon as the sun crests the eastern hills. I guess I'm motivated because I love just about everything about… — Linda Lael Miller Copy Share Image
I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time. — David Remnick Copy Share Image
“Fall makes me think that if I fail horribly at this art thing, and then fail horribly with this writing thing, I'll… — Tyler Hojberg Copy Share Image
Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has… — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
One thing that I am becoming to learn is that you've got to have patience and wait your turn in this game.… — Omarion Copy Share Image
Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your reader's mind, or miss it - but talking is… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
“You wanna be the next Tolkien? Don't read big, tolkien-esque fantasies. TOLKIEN didn't read big, tolkien-esque fantasies. He read books on finnish… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Returning to writing fiction after 13 years away from it. Returning to the rootstock of my whole life as a writer. It's… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I was at a party in 1989 and Ian McEwan, Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie were sitting on a sofa wondering where… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Above all else, it is about leaving a mark that I existed: I was here. I was hungry. I was defeated. I… — Felix Gonzalez-Torres Copy Share Image
How do you remember everything from different books when you are still writing the HP series? As obsessive fans will tell you,… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work. — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be. — Anne M. Mulcahy Copy Share Image
No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write. — Catie Curtis Copy Share Image
My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting. — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them. — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
