When a regular person gets sick, they take an aspirin. When a writer gets sick, they take notes… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I was a writer since I was a little kid. It just always sort of fit for me. — Brian Bird Copy Share Image
I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman? — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I spend a lot of time imagining things - in fact, you could say that imagining things is my job.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please. — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
“When you are a writer, "Just be yourself" takes on a whole different, confusing meaning.” — Jennivie Wirries Copy Share Image
“A writer may not know the way at first; but if he endeavors to complete his task, he carves a path with… — Susan J. McIntire Copy Share Image
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I have trouble with some books because I'm so much in agreement with them I'd rather just sit in the grass myself. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
And for at least that moment, I wouldn't have traded the hundreds of books I've read for the few I know almost… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
“there is the smell, too, of course -- the reassuring smell of paper, new paper, soft old paper, recalling each person to… — Deborah Meyler Copy Share Image
“I learned from the age of two or three that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages… — Frank Oz Copy Share Image
Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
In a way I do hate the process of writing. It's like learning a role where you never think you're going to… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
“A writer's style should be direct and personal, his imagery rich and earthy, and his words simple and vigorous. The greatest writers… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I think distance also helps me gain an certain critical perspective that's essential for good writing. It makes it possible to be… — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
Very often, things that people may think come from the writer, very often don't. There's a lot of cooks in the kitchen… — Evan Daugherty Copy Share Image
For people like me, books are something solid and real, whereas digital stuff is a bit more ethereal. I like the trophy… — John Romaniello Copy Share Image
I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher told me to read it. And… — Dakota Blue Richards Copy Share Image
I was mainly in a state of nervousness while I wrote it - nervousness that it was far bigger and more complicated… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
“this is not the first time that intimidation by typewriter has caused me to consider the pen.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“trying to outrun the novelist’s most insidious enemy, which is doubt.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Books are the reality you get to choose; life is the reality you hide from inside a book.” — A.M. Hudson Copy Share Image
“I was a shy girl, but when I read, I was adventurous. Books made me bolder.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever. — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Don't worry about getting published. Write for therapy. Write for you.” — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
“An author is like a jeweller, with words as their gemstones and imagination the precious metals.” — Steve Smy Copy Share Image
A good writer wants from us — or has no right to ask more than — intelligence, good faith and time. — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
That's one of the great thing about writing is that you get to be in someone's head. — Lauren Conrad Copy Share Image
A writer who doesn't need the money gains power and is dangerous in a negotiation. — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
Writers in Britain aren't really celebrities. You become kind of a darling of a small set. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
