I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything. — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
I handwrite out all my lines. I like to see my handwriting, and I like to keep my notes over time. — George Eads Copy Share Image
Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote. — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
For me, using a notebook every day keeps me on track! Some people use planners; those are great, too. — Rachel Hollis Copy Share Image
I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right, I go… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
“Count calories if you like, but go ahead and gorge yourself on books. What have you got to lose but a small… — Robin R. Meyers Copy Share Image
There are millions of ways to not be writing. You say you're not in the mood, you'll pick it up tomorrow. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“Whoever seeks to live by brain and pen alone is, at the beginning of such a career, treated as a sort of… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world. — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
This book is an agglomeration of lean-tos and annexes and there is no knowing how big the next addition will be, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“between them aren’t yet written. ========== Someday, Someday, Maybe: A Novel (Graham, Lauren) - Your Highlight” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that it's possible to write a novel about people who don't transgress or stumble, people who don't surprise themselves… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
Saying my story makes me want to change it, make it sound pretty the way I do with the stories I tell… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written,… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
'To Kill a Mockingbird' is really two stories. One is a coming-of-age tale told from the point of view of Scout Finch,… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
Don't hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident. . . . Every little qualifier whittles away some… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I think that the idea that there's such a thing as a national literature that's somehow uniquely expressive of a national soul… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didnt publish my first book until I was 41. — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
The beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That's what I love about being a writer of novels. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“With great enthusiasm and determination you will master the art in your field.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Books open windows to the world and have the power to transform lives. — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
It's doubtful that any fiction worth reading has been produced on a computer running Windows Vista. — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I've gotten very alert not just to mixed metaphor but to any writing mistake. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new. — William Temple Copy Share Image
“It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds...” — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
You can't control what's going to happen to the book you're about to publish. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
The story of your life has many chapters. One bad chapter, doesn't mean the end of the book. — Chloe Copy Share Image
“I don't have to do this alone. If I had my gratitude journal on me now, that's what I would write.” — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
