anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write. — Jack London Copy Share Image
Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
No one is saved by mere talk and speech, nor by reading loads of books. — Sri Guru Granth Sahib Copy Share Image
“Being self-published makes me no less "published" than the authors who are with publishing companies.” — Adrienne Thompson Copy Share Image
“Writers are not exactly storytellers, but scribes for the worlds beyond the grasps, beyond the conceptions of the common mind.” — Bailey Elizabeth Copy Share Image
“We’re all born believing,” said Jasper. “The trick of life is to keep believing, even when we’re faced with disappointment. That’s why… — Christa Avampato Copy Share Image
With fiction, it could be about anything. It just has to be good writing, like Maria Semple's "Where'd You Go, Bernadette," which… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
20 years ago, when Bob Bly starting teaching copywriting, the field was deeply shrouded in mystery. Now, thanks to Bob, learning copywriting,… — Ken McCarthy Copy Share Image
Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read if they can't even fit inside the building? -Derek… — Zoolander Copy Share Image
The actual act of writing brings me such pleasure - to tell stories, to engage in cultural criticism, to reflect, to question,… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I write a column for The Village Voice, which I've done since time immemorial, and occasionally - and books. And I occasionally… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Self-publishing provides more freedom and control, but it also provides more risk. Publishing provides more credibility and promotion, but your vision can… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
I write because it is while I'm writing that I feel most connected to why we're here. I write because silence is… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
Never submit an idea or chapter to an editor or publisher, no matter how much he would like you to. Writing from… — John Creasey Copy Share Image
Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Owing to the flood of shallow books which really are exhausted in one reading, the modern mind tends to think every book… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Why do you keep reading a book? Usually to find out what happens. Why do you give up and stop reading it?… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
