“No writer is a quiet reader, for their reading will speak of their writing.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
How did I change my life? I wanted things. I wanted women and I wanted to write books. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time. — Adam Duritz Copy Share Image
I'm not a gifted storyteller, so I write what I know and hope that honesty resonates with other people's experiences. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
Writing offers fairly large rewards to a few successful people, but the rewards come late, and most writers are failures. — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
I just like to write. You can't play basketball 16 hours a day, so it's just working out, working on your body,… — Baron Davis Copy Share Image
Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I think it can be fun to write about relationships just because so many people can relate to what you are feeling. — Bridgit Mendler Copy Share Image
those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Most of the things I write, I write on spec. And because I write them on spec, there's less interference. Because there's… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
I didn't realize when I first started writing how much it would set me free from certain situations in my life. It's… — Lauren Alaina Copy Share Image
“If the written word has contributed anything at all to our developing species and our half developed culture, it is this: Great… — John Steinbeck Journal of a Novel - The East of Eden Letters Copy Share Image
I can't think why I was cursed with this inordinate desire to write, if the high gods weren't going to give me… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
Write, if you must; not otherwise. Do not write, if you can earn a fair living at teaching or dressmaking, at electricity… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
“Your job during or just after the first draft is to decide what something or somethings yours is about. Your job in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I wish I could go back and rewrite my first book, You Bright and Risen Angels; I could do a better job.… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
A lot of people get to the point in their careers where blurbs are ghostwritten for them, because they're like, "I want… — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
Truth is stranger than fiction," as the old saying goes. When I watch a documentary, I can't help crying and then I… — Hiromu Arakawa Copy Share Image
I don't know how to write a novel in the world of cellphones. I don't know how to write a novel in… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“IN LIFE ONE MUST LEARN HOW TO WASH THEIR OWN BACK” — Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier Copy Share Image
