“The history of literature is very far from being one of simple progress.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“On Twitter at last, and can't think of a thing to say. Some writer I turned out to be.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
Hemingway himself and Hemingway's writing were both brilliant, brilliant cocktails. — Lesley M. M. Blume Copy Share Image
Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff,"… — Bobby Farrelly Copy Share Image
I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“In a short story by Chekhov or a novel by Balzac he found mysteries which, so far as he was aware, did… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Tennessee Williams is an incredible writer for women because, in many ways, his women characters are him. He writes so passionately. — Laila Robins Copy Share Image
Writers have opinions - that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes. — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
You'd only write what you know and what you know is what you do and the people you know. So you'd write… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another bag… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
I love writing, but I have that E. E. Cummings idea that as long as you stay inside the rules of your… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
My best times are midnight to six actually. I'll leaf through my notebooks and if something catches my eye and I feel… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
A journal is a very personal thing. As far as possible, to write this sort of book you need to know and… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
Most of the great works of juvenile literature are subversive in one way or another: they express ideas and emotions not generally… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
There are as many different ways to write a novel as there are varieties of human consciousness, so I am totally delighted… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
Books are health food for your brain and dessert for your soul. Books are one of the few proven sources of mental… — Pat Williams Copy Share Image
The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer,… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also,… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
'A Passage To India' by E. M. Forster - It opened my mind to a world I'd never known before. — Kelsey Grammer Copy Share Image
I always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow. — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted. — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world. — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
“...novels do not begin the way you want them to, but the way they want to.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we chose the books we want to read and sometimes they chose us. ” — Rubin Carter Dr Copy Share Image
