I have been writing now for over a week. I find it cleansing, refreshing; it is good for me.” (p.531) — Storm Constantine Copy Share Image
“OK, now write for ten minutes, keep the hand moving, tell me what you carry.” — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I go on many thrilling adventures and wondrous, profound escapades through books. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
I've always measured a good day as one where I can read, write, and run. — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
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One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions -… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
The writing is always the easy part, provided I can get the good material. It's the getting of the good material that's… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
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Ultimately, you've got to have something to say, so a writer should continue learning things throughout life. But I don't think education… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
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When I finally began to publish, my father never read my work. He'd say, 'Oh, that's your mother's sort of thing.' But… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“Literature could turn you into an asshole: he’d learned that teaching grad-school seminars. It could teach you to treat real people the… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
The Revelation was my master's project, and after I finished it, I thought I'd send it off to a publisher and within… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
I could say that all my books were conceived by the time I was twenty, although they were not to be written… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Something I always tell students is, when you're writing something, you want to write the first draft and you want it to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“I had been a writer all of my life, every waking second, and now that part of my life was over. I… — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
Like a lot of people, I read 'The Diary of Anne Frank' again and again and again when I was growing up… — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
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