It is only the basest writer who cannot speak of the sea without talking of "raging waves," "remorseless floods," "ravenous billows," etc.;… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I'd wanted to be a writer my whole life. But when I finally made it, I felt like a greyhound catching the… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When a book is in its final stages, I've just got to be home, looking at it seventeen hours a day, and… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
A cardinal rule of writing is never interrupt yourself to explain something. If you must bring up an obscure topic, drop informative… — Florence King Copy Share Image
“See, I know how they do. White folks like to stay in those books. They carry and they keep and they dig… — Margaret Wrinkle Copy Share Image
This is what i find most encouraging about the writing trades: they allow mediocre people who are patient and industrious to revise… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I want to write about serious things, but I want to write about them in a way that makes them accessible to… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
... characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
. . . [Y]ou must understand that we have always considered the writing of books a hindrance to our work, and that… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
That underscored this idea that when we're reading a book or writing a book, you're in an act of co-creation. The reader… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“You need to publish, and you can’t write, ‘I used a terrible model.’ You have to do grant applications and you want… — Richard F. Harris Copy Share Image
I am a highly disciplined person. I get up at seven every morning and, still in my pajamas, sit down at my… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
This boulder seemed like a curious volume, regularly paged, with a few extracts from older works. Bacon tells us that "some books… — Archibald Geikie Copy Share Image
That's what I love about writing. Once you get the words down on paper, in print, they start to make sense. It's… — Ellen Wittlinger Copy Share Image
I really just wanted to be a writer, but people tell you, 'You should have a backup career,' so I thought, 'OK,… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
“People plan their reading? Takes all kinds… Books just find me. They converge upon me like flocks of benevolent vultures. They follow… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
It's great to be excited by your profession, whether you are a doctor or a writer. I started writing books when I… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
I loved 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.' I read it later as an adult, but I loved 'We Have Always Lived in… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“right now, I am a rough draft; I am here to be revisited and revised. hard as I try, I am not… — Caroline Kaufman Copy Share Image
But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
...It's an unmeetable level of writing. But even if it's something I feel like I can't ever attain, it doesn't crush my… — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
If you are writing the clearest, truest words you can find and doing the best you can to understand and communicate, this… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
In a lot of senses, things are definitely changing in my life, and with what's going on around me. But I still… — Angel Olsen Copy Share Image
Some writers are more natural public performers than others; personally I find it quite strange giving interviews. But everyone has parts of… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
“He is the greatest artist the South has produced.… Indeed, through his many novels and short stories, Faulkner fights out the moral… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
When I read Jerome D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" that was the first time I felt my mind blow open.… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“9. Delicately Sylva moved the upper layers of paper and vellum away and saw, lying on the table, a small book. It… — Robert Reid Copy Share Image
In writing you work toward a result you won't see for years, and can't be sure you'll ever see. It takes stamina… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Invitations to speak upon public occasions are among my most grievous embarrassments. Why is it inferred that one is or can be… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be rich, famous and successful, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“An even more pointed example of the the power of the silence tabu in libraries occurred in Duluth in 1981. The police… — Ray B. Browne Copy Share Image
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I love memoirs, particularly obscure ones because the writer is usually a regular guy just telling what happened to him and to… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
What you read on the Internet or on anything electronic can be taken away, providing power isn't provided. However, books and the… — Rian Dalton Copy Share Image
“will wear you out in a hurry. But because I make my living writing books, I would really like to ask your… — Subjudica House Copy Share Image
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You never want to be in a position where your reader feels like you're passing judgment on your own characters. Any novel… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
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