I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“A great book is not always on the best seller list, follow your own path to discovery” — Taylor Shawcross Copy Share Image
It is so much hard work writing your first novel. You're not even sure that it is possible to do. — Asa Larsson Copy Share Image
“In a world that devalues creativity, writers stand in a courageous place.” — Greg Sushinsky Copy Share Image
People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to… — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with… — Peter Robinson Copy Share Image
The most autobiographical thing I've ever written is my second novel, called 'An Ocean in Iowa.' That is pretty close to my… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
I will take all the adversities in my life as a sharpner that sharpens my personality time and again, which will help… — Aruna Rai Copy Share Image
I just keep following the good writing. I'm not good enough to make bad writing look good. Some people can, and I… — Paul Sparks Copy Share Image
In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual.… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. if you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something… — Ann M. Noser Copy Share Image
Each time I write a book, every time I face that yellow pad, the challenge is so great. I have written eleven… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I don't know but a book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf--at any rate it… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“The way you start writing is by writing. Over and over again I have proven this to myself but I always forget… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
“I "love" reading. It makes me feel like I am swallowing up Christ, Homer, Confucius, Newton, Franklin, Socrates, Caesar, and the whole… — Moffat Machingura Copy Share Image
“The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
If this advertisement be not sufficient, I can only protrude my wormlike tendrils of apology, craving forbearance on the grounds that a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nobody tells young writers it's okay if you're not very good, you'll get better. So I just thought I'm not very good,… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
