I love writing, and I am one of the people who can do it and make a living. — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
I never told anybody I wanted to write, I kind of fell into it backwards. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The knowledge and insights you can get in just one day at a writers' conference make it worth the trip. — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I'm sure my first nine years have had a powerful influence on the kind of books I write. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“The thing is heavy. --I'm talking the whole Harry Potter series put together heavy. Those are some great books. Totally inaccurate, but… — Danielle Ellison Copy Share Image
“I’m working on a large project which I hope will become a book. A war book.’ ‘Hasn’t someone already written that one?” — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
I think it's a misreading of Dostoevsky to think of him as a programmatic theist. He's actually much closer to someone like… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
If writing has taught me anything, it's that you don't actually understand anything until you can express it in words. — Kevin Bleyer Copy Share Image
Acting is my first focus, but at the core, I'm a storyteller, and however that comes out is fine with me. — Santino Fontana Copy Share Image
I write every morning. Two hours. Then I take a break and become my own secretary for a few hours. If I… — John Fante Copy Share Image
The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Due to the sweeping time frame and the voices moving back and forth, the outline for 'The Invention of Wings' was the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
A writer/director is a tough thing to gauge when someone hasn't directed a movie before. You just don't know. Sometimes it will… — Richard Ayoade Copy Share Image
A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot about language from reading slush. You can immediately tell if a writer is in control of the narrative.… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
There's this great Ron Carlson story, "A Note on the Type," and it's about this guy who keeps escaping from prison. He's… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
“We know this type of person well from literature, probably because so many writers are sensitive introverts themselves. He “had gone through… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
