Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming. — Holly Johnson Copy Share Image
Really unfiltered personal writing is cool to me. I'm like, 'How did you show that to everyone?' — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Fictional people are people, too, otherwise why would we care what happens to them?” — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories. — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
For myself, I keep writing. I've got to do something. I can't sit on my hands and do nothing. — Angus Young Copy Share Image
Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“Admire the habits and accomplishments of other authors, but not to the extend it depresses or distracts you from accomplishing your own… — Sarah Gerdes Copy Share Image
I think books are just a great ticket to get you outside of yourself. You can not be you for a second… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Sometimes it gets talked about as if life is all about the individual, and I don't think it is. I'm really interested… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I think readers either love or hate nonlinear storytelling, and it's true that it can be more difficult, both to write and… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
“...writing a novel is buttering warm toast, while writing a history is herding porcupines with your elbows.” — Thomas King Copy Share Image
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is the luck of the draw that me - me - who finally writes a book, it comes out in the… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
Writing is really just a matter of writing a lot, writing consistently and having faith that you'll continue to get better and… — Laura Kasischke Copy Share Image
Books never pall on me. They discourse with us, they take counsel with us, and are united to us by a certain… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
I really love visiting schools - in fact, that's my favorite part of being an author now - even though I still… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“I suppose I've never set out to write a novel in which nothing happens . . . only to write a novel… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
Writing my own stories had always been one of my dreams, but I didn't start until I was 29. I was working… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“As a writer, I do not treat writing merely as a profession but more of as my "calling" and my way of… — Elizabeth E. Castillo Copy Share Image
The idea for a book usually bubbles up from my sub-conscious when I am drifting off to sleep. Each one has started… — Marie Bradby Copy Share Image
Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read. — Christian Bauman Copy Share Image
Keeping a journal is the number-one best way to develop your written voice. — Camille Perri Copy Share Image
“A life is like a book of many chapters and topics. Which Chapter are is your life?” — Elizabeth Adeniyi Copy Share Image
“Who is happy sitting alone at home, reading a book, smiling like a lunatic? A WRITER.” — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I kind of like to write fast. It keeps the pacing up. And it keeps me off the streets. — Marcia Clark Copy Share Image
I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live. — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
“Books are like magic carpets, taking us to places real and imaginary that we never thought possible.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I think anyone can write about anything that they have knowledge of and exposure to. — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
My life isn't very racy or exciting so I make things up, tell stories. I like telling stories. — Lisa Stansfield Copy Share Image
