“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe." — Gustave Flaubert” — Minnie Estelle Miller Copy Share Image
“I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself” — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work. — Randy Wayne White Copy Share Image
“I would rather have ten books I'd read again and again than a hundred books I'll never read.” — Jo Grix Copy Share Image
A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that. — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
Yeah, well, we're all writers, aren't we? He's a writer that hasn't been published, and I'm a writer who hasn't written anything. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“When students learn to wrestle with questions about purpose, audience, and genre, they develop a conceptual view of writing that has lifelong… — John C. Bean Copy Share Image
“To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they work throughout their lives.” — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“I spend my life folded between pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“It is no less difficult to write a sentence in a recipe than sentences in Moby Dick. So you might as well… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“The destruction of Dan's Star Wars collectibles would have been mourned with more intensity by their owner than the burning of the… — Adam Nevill Copy Share Image
My reputation for writing quickly and effortlessly notwithstanding, I am strongly in favor of intelligent, even fastidious revision, which is, or certainly… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“There's lots of interesting things in books. And you get to meet people you might never know otherwise.” — Kiki Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Scheherazade had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of bygone men and things;… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
Writing a novel - unlike operating a piece of heavy machinery, say, or cooking a chicken - is not a skill that… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the 'Book-of-the-Month Club' and… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“He began to explicate a detailed and heretofore unformulated hypothesis about the human mind’s psychological readiness to read a given book at… — Phillip Lewis Copy Share Image
There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I write for myself, and perhaps for half a dozen friends. And that should be enough. And that might improve the quality… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
