“The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I love stories about self-love and finding your identity and your people. — Kate Herron Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I feel like I'm writing pornography in the notebook of the gods.” — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“Being an author is like being a kick boxer. You take a lot of hits to the head.” — Judah Lee Davis Copy Share Image
It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right. — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
There was a terrible fear for me when I started writing, which was that if you'd been denied unbelievably tumultuous experience, you… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Perhaps nothing is more magical then the book. Paper, glue and some words and you are taken away from where you sit,… — Obert Skye Copy Share Image
The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Capote's rejoinder to the Kerouac assertion that he never needed to edit his writing: "That's not writing .That's typing.” — Joseph Cavano Copy Share Image
We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I don't quite understand what Tolstoy's actual personal view of Anna is - whether he likes her or hates her, whether she's… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Fiction is a tower of glass built from a million tiny truths, grains of sand fused together to make a single, gleaming… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
I'm asking the reader to suspend reality with me and entertain the idea that the person writing is not me. In order… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
We all know the old expression, "I'll work my thoughts out on paper." There's something about the pen that focuses the brain… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It turned out that when my younger self thought of taking wing, she wanted only to let her spirit soar. Books are… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
There are three things that I'm addicted to when it comes to entertainment. In no particular order, One, I'm addicted to the… — Dean Devlin Copy Share Image
“GENERAL NOTE TO MYSELF - Douglas Adams Writing isn’t so bad really when you get through the worry. Forget about the worry,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“In the summer, when the days were hot and your writing was good at night, you knew you could find solace in… — Joseph Kutil Copy Share Image
