I like the idea that when a guy comes over to the house, I get to say I wrote the book. — Greg Behrendt Copy Share Image
“As a storyteller, I appreciate a great tale. As a cat lover, I appreciate a great tail.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I think my writing changed when I put 'the' in front of my titles. It had more command. — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
I went through a phase where I wanted to be a writer... but it's not social enough. — Sophie Kennedy Clark Copy Share Image
“It is the deepest of wrongs I am driven to write…. And losing you was one of them.” — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others' minds. — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
The experience you're going to take the audience on is as important as the story you're trying to tell. And that experience… — Sam Esmail Copy Share Image
“All of reading is really only finding ways to name ourselves, and, perhaps, to name the others around us so that they… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
There are very few instances where writers have also been effective image makers - different skill sets are required. — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
Let's not pretend there isn't a huge industry driven by the choices made by editors and writers who decide what a story… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
“Fans are to be greatly appreciated because without them, you're pretty much writing only for yourself.” — Bea Cannon Copy Share Image
The novelist can't successfully depict such horrifying reality. But she can, and must, try, to bear witness. There are many ways of… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“Write a little. Read a little. Dick around on the internet. Post something to Pinterest or Facebook. Text a friend. Write some… — Katrina Monroe Copy Share Image
I've often made revisions at that stage that turned out to be mistakes because I wasn't really in the rhythm of the… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Every author believes that the book which he is placing before the public will 'fill a long-felt want,' and success or failure… — Will C. Barnes Copy Share Image
“My books have all been very deeply felt. You don’t spend eight years of your life working on a trendy knockoff. In… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
One of the ways in which writers most show their inventiveness is in the things they tell us about how they write.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The book is not simply the object that one holds in one's hands, and it cannot remain within the little parallelpiped that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
You have to keep writing. It's almost like practice, almost like tennis, that actually after a few days of not writing, first… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
