Sometimes, if I don't write for a day or two, I get backed up - it's like constipation. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.” — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
“It would be better to try to awake the reader’s critical instincts than to appeal to his laziness.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“...in truth, books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody's best friend.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“There are far more a worst crimes than burning books… Not reading them.” — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and… — Breckin Meyer Copy Share Image
I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words, to say the words, to touch the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“The best thing about a being a writer is the creative process. I often describe it as a beautiful headache that I… — Nicole Huggins Copy Share Image
“Dear reader, you've never been a character in a novel, especially not a female character created by a man. You don't understand… — Yeng Pway Ngon Copy Share Image
“Every author these days is an award-winning novelist. Why? Because they set up an award contest and they dub themselves the winner.” — Karen E. Quinones Miller Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject's books. But choosing a subject is tough. — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
I've been writing the same book my whole life - that you're in one family, and all of a sudden, you're in… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I… — H.P Lovecraft Copy Share Image
A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
“as Flannery O’Connor put it, “In the act of writing, one sees that the way a thing is made, controls and is… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“I don't see the use of reading the same thing over and over again,' said Phillip. 'That's only a laborious form of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
In Prodigal Son, Christine Sutton has penned a tight, brutally honest portrait of a psychopath reminiscent of Theodore Sturgeon's 'Some of Your… — Joe Copy Share Image
“I’ve heard rumors that writing can feel glamorous. But only glamorous, I’d guess, in the way a stretch limo might feel glamorous.… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
Let us now celebrate the literary allusion. Let us now celebrate the trope and willful enjambment. Let us now celebrate the assonance… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
