“It would be better to give up the notion of writing until you are better prepared. Now it's time to be living.… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“I dusted my books off, placing each one—sorted alphabetically and by genre—on the shelves Dad installed. What some people might call “anal,”… — aileen erin Copy Share Image
Recollect that to a woman who gets her living by her pen, 'time is money,' as it is to an artist. Therefore,… — Eliza Leslie Copy Share Image
It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
THE HERETIC'S DAUGHTER is raw, honest and completely captivating. Kathleen Kent takes what would seem to be a familiar subject and gives… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
I think there's a kind of confidence I often feel when I'm writing that I don't feel when I'm in the world,… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“What a splendid thing is literature, what a splendid thing! It strengthens and instructs the heart of man. Literature is a sort… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And it was then I began to realize for the first time that there are two distinct sides to a writer of… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
'Anna Karenina.' I read it in college. I was so engrossed that I couldn't stop reading it and neglected all my other… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery.… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing -… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I write because, exacting as it may be to do so, it is still more difficult to refrain, and because - however… — Iris Origo Copy Share Image
No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake. Loose ends,… — Alexander Trocchi Copy Share Image
“Children's books: Every time you find the right, the necessary, book for a child - a book about sadness overcome, unfairness battled,… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
The idea of the writer who writes nineteen novels, with various ups and downs and levels of experimentation, isn't around so much… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
I've never written a novel before, and part of the reason I haven't is I was worried about getting 50,000 words into… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
“The only customers they'd get on a day like this were lunatics -- well, lunatics and hopeless romantics with a fetish for… — Katherine Pine Copy Share Image
For right now, I'd like to tell stories that I want to tell. I haven't wanted to use someone else's material yet,… — Jason Momoa Copy Share Image
I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To… — Daniel Pinkwater Copy Share Image
I feel like I've got a novel in me somewhere, but that's something... I was just talking to a buddy of mine… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his… — James Payn Copy Share Image
“Should you dare to ride this dreadful beast, you would awaken later as if from a deep sleep, with some of these… — Thomas Wharton Copy Share Image
Writing is the basis of all, because creating something that didn't even exist before is like taking an empty canvass. It is… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
“Yes, writing is a weapon, Delphine, a bloody weapon of mass destruction. Writing is even more powerful than anything you can imagine.… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
“We are not immune to the lure of wonder and mystery and awe: we have music and art and literature, and find… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“There are... otherwise quite decent people who are so dull of nature that they believe that they must attribute the swift flight… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it seems to me that I shall never write out all the books I have in my head, because of the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Usually I read several books at a time - old books, new books, fiction, nonfiction, verse, anything - and when the bedside… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
A novel which survives, which withstands and outlives time, does do something more than merely survive. It does not stand still. It… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“If you were destined to be a poet, then you won't brainstorm for lines that rhymes. If you were destined to be… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The great thing about writing is that...you can do all these antisocial things and you get paid for them and nobody ever… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Writers are there to write, not experience things. If you want to experience things, become a pirate or a Bookhunter. If you… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
“I would use the first week of the moon to organize chapters, do interviews, and talk with friends and colleagues about the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“*The story,* I like to say and remember, *is always smarter than you* - there will be patterns of theme, image,e and… — Tin House Books Copy Share Image
I don't know a writer who doesn't feel some sense of glamour and magic and a complex, wistful sadness emanating from the… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Writing is always a way, for me, of coming to some sort of understanding that I can't reach otherwise.It forces you to… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
You know you're ready to write a book when you have a feeling that you should do it, no matter what anybody… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
