Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to be great. — Elizabeth Meriwether Copy Share Image
Nay, Sir, those who write in them, write well, in order to be paid well. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“She’s been reading too much, he thought -had drifted across that line that separated what you might find in a book from… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“A person that doesn't read and doesn't have any ethics complaining about a writer feels like a Chihuahua barking at a Rottweiler.” — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
Ive always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Co-writing is a very unnatural feeling. It's like wanting to document a feeling that you have and then trying to get someone… — Kathleen Edwards Copy Share Image
Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work… — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
The world is changing, but I am not changing with it. There is no e-reader or Kindle in my future. My philosophy… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“What the best fiction does is make powerful affirmations of familiar truths...the trivial fiction which times filters out is that which either… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“Should he give free reign to his desires, the bibliomaniac can ruin his life along with the lives of his loved ones.… — Mikita Brottman Copy Share Image
Whatever they do, criminals and non-criminals act in particular ways. Some writers, for instance, use computers, others pen and paper. Some write… — Ronald Kessler Copy Share Image
Write what you want to read. The person you know best in this world is you. Listen to yourself. If you are… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
My writing life is pretty simple - I try to work every day, almost always in the mornings - and I can… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens--of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel. — Camilla Lackberg Copy Share Image
My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library. — Bill Russell Copy Share Image
“So you're a librarian." His eyes shifted back and forth. "I prefer loremaster.” — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I can't ever think of writing a book or an autobiography. I'm a little private person. — Randhir Kapoor Copy Share Image
Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I find writing really difficult - definitely the most difficult of all the things I do. — Grant Heslov Copy Share Image
Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The greatest book is one written by your pen, but not exactly from your mind.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“For me writing has always been best when it's intimate, as sexy as skin on skin.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.” — René Descartes Copy Share Image
