“Seriously, deleting IS writing. It's not only adding words that count, cutting does too!” — Diem Burden Copy Share Image
Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book. — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
“To write simply is as difficult as to be good.” Somerset Maugham.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“What's a horizon?' Lazlo asked, straight-faced. 'Is it like the end of an aisle of books?” — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“In literature, as in Life, one is often astonished by what is chosen by others.” — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
I've always tried to write about America. It's very worth a writer's effort. — John Updike Copy Share Image
One Good Book Is Equal To, Hundred Good Friend's But One Good Friend Is Equal To A Liabary. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off. — William Styron Copy Share Image
I like to write from a slightly sad or complicated place. But with a sense of hope and happiness at the same… — Eliot Sumner Copy Share Image
Once you start writing something obsessively, it's almost like someone has to rip it from your hands in order for you to… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Through all this other stuff I was doing, I always went back to the writing, and it was writing that made me… — Dannah Gresh Copy Share Image
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“Reading is an activity that not only expands the mind but also enhances the soul and cultivates ones character.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To write a good story there are four things that every author needs: 1. A beginning 2. A middle 3. An ending… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
The minute you finish a piece of writing it doesn't belong to you, you don't write it any more, it belongs to… — Kate Tempest Copy Share Image
I think as a young person, leaving high school or college, you're like, 'All right, all right, enough already.' But now there's… — Phillipa Soo Copy Share Image
The old handbook on writing is 'Write what you know.' I come from an autobiographical starting place almost all of the time,… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it.… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Burroughs called his greatest novel Naked Lunch, by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. He's… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Writing can be a lifeline, expecially when your existence has been denied, especially when you have been left on the margins, especially… — Micere Mugo Copy Share Image
It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
