I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book. — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
For a writer, capturing that elusive Christmas morning magic can be deeply problematic. — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar — Bill Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
“Library is direction where wisdom start and ignorance end.” — Abid Hussain Library Officer Copy Share Image
There came a time when I felt I was not going to be satisfied with life unless I could write. — James Salter Copy Share Image
“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.” — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's -… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Writer's block — so what? Write something bad. Just throw it in the trash can when you're done, you're always improving. That… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Most fundamentally, I used to write because I received positive feedback. To a guy who was picked on pretty relentlessly through a… — Donald Dunbar Copy Share Image
When you're writing for the Internet, you have the analytics, and you know that people are bailing every second. But various people… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end… — Sara Nelson Copy Share Image
You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about… — Abraham A. Ribicoff Copy Share Image
I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints…I think that, as you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
