You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words. — Amy Lowell 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
“Books are alive and, just like people, sometimes are welcome and sometimes shown the door and asked to come back later.” — Christopher Herz Copy Share Image
One of the great perks of being a writer is that you can work when you're mentally capable of it, not when… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
At some point, my body will collapse. But I hope that my brain will still be working so that I can carry… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
'Irma Voth' is my sixth book, but it's only the third time I've featured Mennonite settings and characters. — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never have I sought a cure, and my… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
I stay away from the writing part because I think that if it sticks, it sticks. You just know it. The stuff… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
It is true that it is usually for their books that novelists reserve their most considered and ordered thoughts, but the fact… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Writing itself is a dream. There are days of self doubt and deadlines and wondering how you're going to pay the bills… — Graham Brown Copy Share Image
The label YA actually means nothing except that the protagonists, or some of them, are young. Publishers like it because it is… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
In terms of style, I think the memoirist should have a novelist's skill and all the elements of a novelist's toolbox. When… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
Brighter Than a Thousand Suns' by Robert Jungk and 'Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!' by Richard Feynman were both books my father… — Baiju Bhatt Copy Share Image
Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but these volumes… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Writing is still a bit of a miracle - the whole process: I see the world, filter the world, write down abstract… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
