I started out with three creative jobs - painter, janitor and gag writer. — William Hanna Copy Share Image
A novelist is someone who sits around the house all day in his underwear, trying not to smoke. — Scott Spencer Copy Share Image
“Words are my leisure, Words are my life. Words are my gift to thee, Use 'em wisely for light.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited list. ~John Aikin” — John Aikin Copy Share Image
Canadian writers don't live in gated mansions; you can just talk to them when you see them lining up at the Second… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
As a writer, I'm always mindful that not everyone is going to feel the same way I do about something, so my… — Cher Lloyd Copy Share Image
I think all writers have a bit of genius in them, and a bit of talent. Genius retreats but talent improves. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“The quick and dirty way is to write down a one-line description, in the simplest terms possible, of what I’m creating, along… — Giles Colborne Copy Share Image
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He recalled Mark Twain’s words, “Truth is stranger than Fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth… — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
One of the wonderful things about being a writer is that you're constantly dredging up some arcane knowledge or long-forgotten experience, rediscovering… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
I always swore I would never write a book. But I read Clare Balding's and it was really interesting and so prettily… — Jennifer Saunders Copy Share Image
I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn't know where it was going to go. So I thought, 'I'm… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its… — Avi Copy Share Image
“For years I've gathered various books, sources. When I was little it might have been Tolkien, and so I would have just… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
“You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Jeff Carver is a hard sf writer who gets it right-his science and his people are equally convincing. NEPTUNE CROSSING combines his… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“I hear you're a writer,' said 2040..."What are you writing about?' Not liking to discuss my writing with strangers, I had been… — Phoebe Damrosch Copy Share Image
Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire. — Jacques Amyot Copy Share Image
Writing is like sewing together what I call these 'buttons,' these bits and pieces. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Often it doesn't occur to you what kind of novel you're writing until quite late on. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“it's a misconception that book sellers look after books, they look after people.” — Nina George Copy Share Image
“To me, you are a book I have opened. I can't put it down. I need to know more.” — Jodi Ellen Malpas Copy Share Image
“You can never have enough books. But you certainly tried. It was a really, really, really good try.” — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Your library makes our small corner of the world feel big...” — Belle (Beauty & The Beast Copy Share Image
Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write. — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way. — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
