“You know you're a writer when you wish you could meet your characters and hang out with them.” — Kerry Frith Copy Share Image
One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing. — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
I think now, whenever I write, there is nothing that will really compare to pen and paper. — Bishop Briggs Copy Share Image
“I don’t believe in skipping ahead Dale. I read the book all the way through.” — Jay Crownover Copy Share Image
“I tried to write a coming of age novel, but I wasn't deep enough to get past the third chapter.” — Rick Robinson Copy Share Image
I've never written a children's book, but when people meet me for the first time and I say I write books, they… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
“This might sound a little nutty, but to write fiction is to live in an invented world with a set of imaginary… — April Lindner Copy Share Image
“Books are all the dreams we would most like to have and like dreams they have the power to change consciousness. ” — Victor Nell Copy Share Image
I try to find pain and anger and hurt and write about it, and inject just a tiny bit of hope into… — Everlast Copy Share Image
The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work… — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
Invariably, it is this for which I write: the joy ... of an argument firmly made, like a nail straightly driven, its… — George Will Copy Share Image
“If you should stick only to what you know, we should worry about the thousands of authors who write about murder. If” — Roz Morris Copy Share Image
We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“And when I can't speak it, I write it down. I wish I was different. Wish I was taller, smarter, could talk… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I always encourage authors (especially new authors) to be as generous as we are blessed. For one thing, it is a way… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
If you don't compromise your gift, if you write each day as well as you can, and then submit your work and… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
For a very long time, I thought everyone I met through the process of getting an agent and a publishing deal had… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired… — Nat Turner Copy Share Image
“He didn't need a psychiatrist to point out that writing had its autoerotic side — you beat a typewriter instead of your… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I follow my own nose. So I read things that are different. People will always say to me, "Have you read Robert… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery. — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life. — Stephan Jenkins Copy Share Image
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read.” — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make? — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Well, I've discovered that I really like writing, and I feel that I'm good at it. — John Densmore Copy Share Image
No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters. — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
Always I try to write about people. People are interested in other people always. — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads. — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
