I can't write at night. For me, I'm programmed to believe that nighttime is for relaxation. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I find it hugely exciting to be dealing with another writer's language. — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
“I do not read for I have renounced life, I read because one life is just not enough for me.” — Abbas Al-Akkad Copy Share Image
I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human. — Shirley Knight Copy Share Image
To be a working writer is the holy grail, where you don't have three other jobs on top of that. — Laeta Kalogridis Copy Share Image
The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product. — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I started a funny book from the 1930s called The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse is a comic… — William Gurstelle Copy Share Image
Comics is still my first love. But I always did other kinds of writing, too, so I think of myself as a… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
“For many writers the goal is a thousand words a day. For me, just give me one thought, and the words will… — Garry Fitchett Copy Share Image
Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The whole process of getting a book published is just part of the process. The last of the process that I enjo — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back. — Cecil B. DeMille Copy Share Image
There isn't a thought or feeling that doesn't alter or deepen when written. We are a writing animal. That is why all… — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
Of my private life I have nothing to say: it does not concern others. I have always had little liking for autobiographies… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
I love to write just about more than anything, but there are times I have to force myself to sit down and… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them.… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes. Granted, most writers I know are a bit strange. Some, downright… — Christopher Hopper Copy Share Image
