A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Your body keeps an accurate journal regardless of what you write down... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature. — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
A lot of my writing and my detailing of scenes are based on my observations of life in Nagpur. — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
“Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
...for the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching...by most Friday afternoons I felt as if… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My favorite writer on 'The X-Files' is this guy Darin Morgan. He wrote my favorite episode and the top five favorite episodes… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love to read the kind of books I write. Genre-breaking. Fresh-concept. World-building. My all-time top three authors would have to be… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
Wolf Boy is absolutely beguiling. Evan Kuhlman has boundless empathy for all his characters, and his wonderful protagonist Stephen is, in turn,… — Valerie Sayers Copy Share Image
“People are laughing at me today for having holes in my pockets, and ink blood on my fingers- a thirty-something old writer,… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends,… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“Ellen looked around the room with an odd expression, for the first few seconds not taking in the collection spread across the… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
You can't write a children's book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
“Are they not criminals, books that have wasted our time and sympathy; are they not the most insidious enemies of society, corrupters,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked down--to the… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“Books had always been a comfort to her. More than comfort. There were times when reading came close to an addiction. When… — Sarah Morgan Copy Share Image
“He was giving her the most important thing he could, the only way he knew how. He was a professor, a lover… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
