I always travel with one book. I'll read it and then leave it for someone else, and take another book. — Patrick J. Adams Copy Share Image
I had a crazy amount of success as a writer, which isn't normal by any means. — Stephanie Land Copy Share Image
“The reader is entertained by the journey of another, but the writer is the changer of worlds.” — Rand Miller Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Some swore the cats had been caught pawing through the pages of open books - reading.” — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved.” — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it's not arrogant. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to listen to your mind and endure the life of the writer” — Wahab Oriyomi Osuolale Copy Share Image
I like to leave things open, and even when I write out the story ahead of time, it always changes. I don't… — Charles Forsman Copy Share Image
“Being a writer guarantees that you will spend too much time alone -- and that as a result, your mind will begin… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Ultimately, when you write from a vantage point of faith, humility, and openness to the world around you, people have to respond… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“I don't write like this in order to show how clever and well read I am--though I am rather clever and well… — John Heath-Stubbs Copy Share Image
Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
Lots of shows are written completely in the writer's room. And I wouldn't say 'The Walking Dead' is that way. There are… — Scott M. Gimple Copy Share Image
I don't think my book is any more shocking than if I went out right now and brought back your local newspaper… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
Writing is incredibly hard. But I want to do it. That said, I make it the top priority in every day, which… — Lucy Jane Bledsoe Copy Share Image
Being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody. Whereas, as an actor, you have to audition or… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
When people say "How do you write a book, how does it all happen?" I say, you line things up, and you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Maugham described the novel as “the story of a nine days wonder in a Lambeth slum” and confessed to being influenced by… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
