“If you want to become a better writer, you have to write. But you also have to read.” — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
The hardest part is making the time to write. Not finding the time to write, mind you. Making. — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together. — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing. — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“As a writer, self-doubt is useless. Get rid of it, rip it out like a weed and compost it.” — Julie Rodelli Copy Share Image
When I'm trying a new form- trying to do something I'm not used to doing, which was true of the novel. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have… — George A. Moore Copy Share Image
I like to write with people I have a relationship with; otherwise it's kind of scary, and you hold back because you… — Miranda Lambert Copy Share Image
“When you are writing, you do not need to be as good as Poe, Shakespeare or Rowling. You need to be as… — Giuseppe Bianco Copy Share Image
Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography: and its… — Dick Francis Copy Share Image
I don't think writers should have writer's block. I think they should write. Imagine you were a bus driver and you said,… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I go to Barnes & Noble with the sole intention of moving all copies of the bible to the fiction section. — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I was never without a book, just in case there were empty moments to slip into a life that wasn't mine.” — Patti Callahan Henry Copy Share Image
People say I write specifically about nothing in particular. I don't know about the latter part, but I think the first part… — Dan Bejar Copy Share Image
“Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into a lucid form and… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Furthermore, even if ideas were gettable - say, stacked in a secluded cave like the Dead Sea scrolls - I wouldn't go… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
“Sweet fiction, in which bravado and despair beckon from a cold panache, in which the protected essential self suffers flashes of its… — Frank Bidart Copy Share Image
“I happen to believe that the deepest value of fiction is that, in its very fictiveness, it is the one arena where… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
My instinct tells me "purpose" is maybe the enemy of a good personal essay. In my own experience, I'm always lost and… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
I go back and forth between input phases where I'm reading a lot or trying to get out and explore the world… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
