The definition of a writing career, is write a book, write another book, write another book — Holly Lisle Copy Share Image
Writing is like mining for gold hidden in the hillsides of your mind. — David Baboulene Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library. — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
“The mason stirs. Words! Pens are too light. Take a chisel to write.” — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
A novel is a way to rethink and rewrite and re-envision the past, and also a way to speak to people who… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
“-Books were once cherished belongings of people, that they weren't always just neglected and collecting dust.” — Barbara Hodgson Copy Share Image
The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I was about thirteen but didn't start a book until 2007. I spent four years writing a sci-fi… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
I purposely adopted a style in my storytelling wherein I don't have to explain everything or why the story is moving in… — Shoojit Sircar Copy Share Image
“When I was in high school, all my friends said they were going to be writers. And I thought, How come you… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
“She read her way around the library, hungry for journeys, adventures, laughter and passion. She took each new book to bed like… — Cath Staincliffe Copy Share Image
Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Thrills, chills, spine-tingling mystery, and lots of smiles. It's not easy to combine heart-pounding danger with gut-busting laughs and make it work,… — Wayne Thomas Batson Copy Share Image
I'm a different writer now. You don't sit in a room with Sopranos creator David Chase and writer Terence Winter for four… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
A lot of times, writers are told write as big as you can, and that's not untrue. But at times I think… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“And somehow or other, the windows being open, and the book held so that it rested upon a background of escallonia hedges… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Kids are not going to sit and read a slow-paced book. Neither are adults. — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
It doesnt matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
One little word thats all it took, to change my life to a different book — Aly Johnson Copy Share Image
Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Ideas are cheap. Writing them into a freakin' 90k word novel is the hard part.” — Ellie Ann Copy Share Image
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“Anybody can write a book. But writing it well and making it sell - that's the hard part.” — Jay Taylor Copy Share Image
I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.' — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two. — George Burns Copy Share Image
“Clothes dissolving, skin pressing together like the pages of a book, bound by a common spine.” — Chris Cole Copy Share Image
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