As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I would not want to write something about something I do not think about — Geezer Butler Copy Share Image
However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If writers only wrote about things everybody knew, what the hell would be the point of writing?” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“I can't understand why a person will take a year or two to write a novel when he can easily buy one… — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
The thing I have learned through the years is that one idea 'doth' not a novel make. A novel must be several… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
No one will argue that writing is an easy profession. Getting someone to pay you for your words isn’t easy. But there… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
For me, writing started as pleasure that became professionalized, so my relationship to it is a bit sullied. I'm working it out. — Katrina Onstad Copy Share Image
“The book is a body and your mind will mold to its individual curves much in the way it will to any… — Yxta Maya Murray Copy Share Image
And, of course, there were some times when I had writer's block and I had a hard time figuring out how to… — Nita Strauss Copy Share Image
I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying' had an immense effect on me, and most of my novels bear the burn marks of this… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“You have made some notes, read some writing books, and done some research. Mostly what you've done is talk about writing a… — Pat Walsh Copy Share Image
I just want to keep going as long as I can. I'm getting older, and I want to keep growing, and I… — Timothy B. Schmit Copy Share Image
It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader.… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, but I cannot, in good… — Laurie Notaro Copy Share Image
Even when I read a book, if the book leaves me the possibility of finding certain solutions or working on my own… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
“I grew up in libraries, and I hope I've learned never to take them for granted. A thriving library is the heart… — Josie Brown Copy Share Image
“Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. It doesn't matter… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
