I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar. — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
“Consequently, we sympathize. We identify. We care. In fact, most writers would like you to identify” — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“A bad handwriting is as annoying to a reader … as an irritating voice is to a listener.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you want to write how you feel, but making people have fun, that's part of it, too. — Cole Swindell Copy Share Image
I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time. — David Remnick Copy Share Image
Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“I want to see my wife and children every day, I want to see my grass and blossoms and corn ... But… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“A writer is not a writer because he has written some books. A writer is not a writer because he teaches literature.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Cathy Clamp is a visionary author, creating new worlds that are both strong and vividly drawn. Adventure and excitement at its best. — Yasmine Galenorn Copy Share Image
Vegas is like the old definition of writing: though I don't enjoy writing, I love having written. Though I didn't enjoy Vegas,… — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
Fiction can either be a mirror reflecting you back to yourself or it can be a clean pane of glass looking on… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“I was arguing not that everyone should read books by ladies—though shifting the balance matters—but that maybe the whole point of reading… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I established my first writing routine when I was 13. The school year had just ended, and I'd won a stack of… — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share Image
Because I write what I feel the most heavy about. So if there is one day of the week when I feel… — Phoebe Bridgers Copy Share Image
“To write is to objectify dreams, to create an outer world as a material reward [?] of our nature as creators. To… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I think it's just too kinda juicy and compelling to imagine people in their private lives, but then half the time people's… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
“I like writing that is restrained and invisible. I don't mean that I like things to be simple and easy to decode,… — S.U. Pacat Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of Hugh Kenner, Richard Ellman, Lionel Trilling and Frank Kermode. All these people have taught me how to read… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
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