Writing is the greatest thing that can happen to a human being. It's the best. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing. — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
I write linearly without knowing the full story. I discover it as I write it. — Gautham Menon Copy Share Image
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
People in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist can be understood completely by the reader, if… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
All of the good, weird stories I’ve written are based on things I’ve dredged out of my subconscious. That’s the real stuff.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
For me, when you're writing out your problems, you can kind of figure out what you're feeling. Once you know what the… — Coco Gauff Copy Share Image
I live in the writing, as the words come out of my throat burning all that I see in the surreal valley… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
The one thing a lifetime in the newspaper business teaches you is pace - you spend all your time trying to make… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
I think, like, fiction has a place to understand those things that are hardest to understand that non-fiction can't ever get at. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I love writing, and I am never as happy as when I have a week, a month - three months - with… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being... what… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
That you can go anywhere in America and get a book from a library is just the most amazing thing in the… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Let's be clear - for people like me, who are obsessed with story and for whom words are their medium, writing is… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Writing feels safe, you know, it's a hard job, but at least you're in your office or wherever you are and there's… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
Usually I work out the plot before I start. This time I thought: Writers always talk about not knowing where a book… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.… — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
I like big books and I cannot lie. You other readers can’t deny That when a kid walks in with The Name… — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
I have the longing that all writers have for new ears to pour my words into. — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
“I have books I go to only when I need solace or when I am in pain of body or soul.” — Gwen E Campbell Copy Share Image
When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us. — John Green Copy Share Image
Just as with running, there were days that I didnt feel like writing; I wrote anyways. — Nick Symmonds Copy Share Image
Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“I write like I make love: alone in my bathtub, as I let the fantasy overflow and wash over me.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I love being a writer in a medium where they have to ask you, 'Can I change this line?' — Bruce Joel Rubin Copy Share Image
As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection. — Carol Leifer Copy Share Image
