No writer can really sustain two huge - I hate the word 'franchises.' — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“The world was doing its best to ignore the fact that I was a writer.” — Wayne Koestenbaum Copy Share Image
Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent. — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
Your mind burns a lot of calories. Writing can feel like a physical workout. — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
When writing the story of your life, don't let someone else hold the pen. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love. — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
When writers say that they need to 'set the mood' or 'get into the zone', those are all ways to procrastinate. Not… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
I thought that you had to learn to write by yourself and if you couldn't do it, then you were out of… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Nicotine addicted, persecuted, her day is a maddening circle of tea and biscuits, baking, smoking, the necessary fiction of the housewife.” — James Claffey Copy Share Image
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“During the engineering exams we only need ink in our pen, nothing else is needed to answer the question paper.” — Prashant Gupta Copy Share Image
I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
I was a kid when I read Jane Eyre and fell in love with that universe. I didn't have the acumen to… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
“write whatever comes into your head, as fast as you can type, without reference to outlines, notes, data, books or any other… — Howard S. Becker Copy Share Image
“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I would get up at 3 in the morning and write. Or sometimes I would write at midnight. Or I would write… — Bebe Moore Campbell Copy Share Image
I think there's a difference between having a bestselling book - meaning through marketing, PR and buying that first wave of customers… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There's an old folk saying that goes: whenever you delete a sentence from your NaNoWriMo novel, a NaNoWriMo angel loses its wings… — Chris Baty Copy Share Image
“Yes, these are the thoughts that occupy my brain on a daily basis: How many steps to take. How many hairbrush strokes.… — S. Walden Copy Share Image
You sit down in the morning on your own to write something. You get to the end of the day and it's… — Dan Mazer Copy Share Image
Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Every time I finish a book, I feel like Ive lost a part of me and just sit there feeling empty. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting. — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“Even when I’m writing about shape shifters and magical lands, I’m looking into my own heart.” — Kay Kenyon Copy Share Image
I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway. — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
There must be times when everybody writes when they feel they're evading writing. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators. — Ian Hunter Copy Share Image
Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Writing is one of the easiest things: erasing is one of the hardest. — Yisroel Salanter Copy Share Image
The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
For me, it's just always about trying to tell stories that I care about. — Rachel Morrison Copy Share Image
