One of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this need to over-explain. — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
The world has gotten smaller and more accessible since I first started writing in the 70's. — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41. — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works. — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
One gets infected, it is true, by the style of a work that one has been reading — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Don't say you're a writer if you're not writing. Even if you're writing, don't call yourself a writer. Say instead, 'I write.'… — Patti Digh Copy Share Image
Writing the perfect paper is a lot like a military operation. It takes discipline, foresight, research, strategy, and, if done right, ends… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
I have sought for happiness everywhere, but I have found it nowhere except in a little corner with a little book. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
I think precision in writing goes hand in hand with not trying to say everything. You try and say two-thirds, so the… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I've been an entrepreneur, a writer, a food correspondent. I might have been an architect - but I'm bad at maths. — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
What do I do when writing isn't going well? Well, I don't write - which is symptom, cure, and cause. And then… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I don't believe in writer's block. Most of writer's block is having too much time on your hands. My mantra is that… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Reading books about gardens is a potent pastime; books nourish a gardener's mind in the same way as manure nourishes plants.” — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
I never need to find time to read. When people say to me, ‘Oh, yeah, I love reading. I would love to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The other thing you can do is write a strong personal essay which lets admissions people inside your life, your heart, and… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
“Greg Broadmore's fertile and twisted imagination has conjoined multiple genres, memories, and a sharp sense of pulp, colonialist nostalgia/parody in this lavish,… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I started reading. I read everything I could get my hands on...By the time I was thirteen I had read myself out… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people.… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“I’d have devoured those books I’ve come to love—the ones that have helped me reawaken my sexuality. The books that have made… — C.D. Reiss Copy Share Image
I don't have a fixed routine. I write every day but I don't "write" every day, if that makes any sense. In… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Most copywriters are like engines. They take a while to warm up to get to the point. — Drayton Bird Copy Share Image
I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not. — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
The burning soul, the burden'd mind, In books alone companions find. — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“To friends and books, and friends in books, may our stories be long and our friendships longer.” — Molly MacRae Copy Share Image
I like Hemingway and I like a lot Jewish writers (such as) Saul Bellow. — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
Isolated in the oncology ward, I began to think about my dream to become a writer. — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
Just because suddenly you have a sabbatical doesn't mean that the writing occasion comes to you. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart. — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young! — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
