My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote. — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others. — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Life isn't like coursework, baby. It's one damn essay crisis after another. — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
The only real reason to write professionally is that you love it enough. — Sloan Wilson Copy Share Image
You never know what to expect when you're a writer visiting a movie set. — Bryan Burrough Copy Share Image
Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop. — Red Smith Copy Share Image
I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon. — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
I went with the old adage that you should write what you know. What I knew was 18th century Britain, so what… — David Liss Copy Share Image
I love to write. I love it. I mean there's nothin in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
The only way I seem to be able to keep going while I'm writing is to munch my way through boxes of… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“the chief offense in bad fiction: we sense that characters are being manipulated, forced to do things they would not really do.” — John Gardner Copy Share Image
There are an awful lot of readers who won't pick up a book if they think it's got anything horrific in it,… — Peter James Copy Share Image
“Bedtime stories Eventide Rhapsodies Anthologies of Memory Please enter cautiously and feel free to open what is closed” — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“If we're genuinely interested in a book we can even bring ourselves to be greatful when others draw our attention to things… — Ian Watt Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the diary demands, in a way, the maximum fictionalizing of the utterer and the addressee. Writing is always a kind of… — Walter J. Ong Copy Share Image
I've never written for anybody else. For me, it was a challenge. I write for me. I don't write for anybody else.… — Teddy Pendergrass Copy Share Image
I always save a huge book for a flight, because then you read it at both airports and on the plane and… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
“Remember to write continuously the entire twenty minutes. And never forget that this writing is for you and you alone. At the… — James W. Pennebaker Copy Share Image
“The novel should tell the truth, as I see the truth, or as the novelist persuades me to see it. And one… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
There's an expression, "God is in the details," and it applies to nothing more than it does to the writing of fiction.… — Donna Levin Copy Share Image
Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“The genesis of my interest in being a writer can be traced to fourth grade when we listened to a radio production… — Laura Abbot Copy Share Image
