Writing is one of the easiest things: erasing is one of the hardest. — Yisroel Salanter Copy Share Image
The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
There must be times when everybody writes when they feel they're evading writing. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators. — Ian Hunter Copy Share Image
If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“For solace at this time of sadness and confusion, Marguerite turned to a source that would remain a refuge to her throughout… — Nancy Goldstone Copy Share Image
If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life… — James Salter Copy Share Image
The business of fiction is the study of the human condition, and gender is something that many humans are obsessed with, thus… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Real life is often more literary than the works of literature. That’s because it doesn’t have to appear credible.” — Mikhail Iossel Copy Share Image
Books may be written in all sorts of places. Verbal inspiration may enter the berth of a mariner on board a ship… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
For more than twenty years he [Blanchard] toiled on through the most fatiguing paths of literary composition, mostly in periodicals, often anonymously;… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
It took time to learn that the hard thing about writing is to let the story write itself, while one sits at… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I think one of the problems with being a fiction writer these days is that you can't keep up with the headlines.… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
It's great that there are so many different kinds of books for kids and adults to choose from. I think an eclectic… — Ann M. Martin Copy Share Image
My background is really being a writer's actor - that seems to be the way I work best, bringing out the best… — Lindsay Duncan Copy Share Image
The problem with an autobiography is that all these extra factors make it difficult. You don't want to hurt people's feelings. You… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
“Humans need each other for equilibrium and support. But writers must pull aside to take a quiet walk alone, not just for… — Patricia Hickman Copy Share Image
“[W]hat is one to say of the writer who lies when he writes that he is lying?” — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share Image
If I can be writing, I can take a certain amount of control when so much around me is upsetting. — Carolyn Chute Copy Share Image
“Libraries are full of ghosts, books being the most haunted things of all.” — Maya Panika Copy Share Image
“No book is really worth reading at the age of 10 which is not equally worth reading at the age of 50.” — Gladys Hunt Copy Share Image
The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
So I pull away all I do is sit and wait and I might as well write the words right on my… — Parachute Copy Share Image
“Writing is always a solitary experience, but living, if you're lucky, is not.” — Beth Harbison Copy Share Image
Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things. — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
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