We don't need to dumb down our stuff. And it's important to know how far we can push readers. — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
“He was universally charming, as only a writer in pursuit of a publisher can be.” — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
In my library/study/barn, there is a Ping-Pong table on which I can pile working books and spread maps. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
“One day someone is going to read my autobiography and say “Wow, what a horror novel” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“They’re in the book I gave you, you criminally-minded mademoiselle.” “Oh.” — K.M. Shea Copy Share Image
I tend to describe recurring themes as being part of a writer's DNA - something so deeply embedded in us that even… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of. — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough – I wrote faster than I would write a letter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a writer, not an actor. I want to write rather than perform. I'm looking forward to disappearing for a while. — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I usually write in my kitchen, which is a large, octagonal room that looks into woods - three big windows look out… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I'm a massive reader. I actually really love to collect antiquarian literature and I love that my job allows me to travel… — Jenna Ortega Copy Share Image
If I could have anything I wanted, I would choose story without end, and it seems I have lots of company in… — Annie Barrows Copy Share Image
“I love books. I really, really love them. There's something special about bringing people and books together” — Margaret Truman Copy Share Image
Writers shouldn't fall in love with their characters so much that they lose sight of what they're trying to accomplish. The idea… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
“One must be prepared to fight for one’s simple pleasures and to defend them against elegance and erudition and all manner of… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
Writing is something warm and dependable to snuggle up to when everything else is in flux. It's a little secret that you… — Judy Delton Copy Share Image
I know of one semibarbarous zone whose librarians repudiate the "vain and superstitious habit" of trying to find sense in books, equating… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
My writing process isn't a very organized thing. The actual writing part is a tiny part of my life. I often write… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The most important piece of writing advice: Have something to say. Whenever I have trouble writing, it’s because I’m trying to write… — GRETCHEN RUBIN Copy Share Image
If you're going to do a memoir, then it's sort of at this age - in your late sixties or seventies -… — Grace Coddington Copy Share Image
When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words. — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have. — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
“Writer's Block is just an excuse by people who don't write for not writing.” — Giando Sigurani Copy Share Image
My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person.” — Sandra Chami Kassis Copy Share Image
The library (in the migrant community) I grew up in was my only link to the outside world. — Luis Valdez Copy Share Image
“Never believe a writer. Listen to them, by all means, but never believe them.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
