A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I've learned that certain things are much harder than when you write about them in a book. — Sal Khan Copy Share Image
I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true. — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
The truth is I tried to write for years and I wasn't very good. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“All the grief I had kept at bay for years by means of books and bookcases approached me now.” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
In short, you have only your emotions to sell. This is the experience of all writers. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Thai society rarely attempts to control literature in the same way that it vigilantly polices visual art. It's ironic because people in… — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Copy Share Image
“I love getting lost in a story, to take a break from reality and live in another world. There’s no feeling like… — K.C. Lynn Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is a herculean task, but the toughest thing is to get convinced with your work, and finally give it… — Shivam Chaudhary Copy Share Image
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there… — Martial Copy Share Image
“Lady Bella went up to her apartment, and betook herself to her Books, which supplied the place of all company to her.” — Charlotte Lennox Copy Share Image
It really was total heaven to be a writer. As a model or actor you are employed on someone's whim. As a… — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
Retiring from writing is not to retire from life, but retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing… — Jim Crace Copy Share Image
A good writer must be like the birds of a dark forest; you can't see them, but you can hear their mysterious… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking. All conversations with older people contain repetition. Some of the ideas mean… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I'm afraid my closely guarded solitude causes some hurt feelings now and then. But how to explain, without wounding someone, that you… — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want… — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
I don't think I ever have trouble with writer's block. It's different when you make it up as you go - that… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
“been forgotten, but his longest novel, Moby-Dick — largely considered a failure during his lifetime, and responsible for Melville's drop in popularity… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Sometimes you buy a book, powerfully drawn to it, but then it just sits on the shelf. Maybe you flick through it,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Novelty. Security. Novelty wouldn't be a bad title. It had the grandness of abstraction, alerting the reader that large and thoughtful things… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise,… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Libraries are places that house our dreams, our fantasies, our thirst for adventure. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“Literature that awakens and inflames feelings is the food of hearts.” — Ahmed Mayouf Copy Share Image
“...you can have a dark heart and be a writer, but you can't have a black one..” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel. — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look. — Robert Kirkman Copy Share Image
Writing well means never having to say, 'I guess you had to be there.' — Jef Mallett Copy Share Image
'Pale Fire' by Vladimir Nabokov was bloody hard work but really thrilling. — Domhnall Gleeson Copy Share Image
..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter. — Dan Poynter Copy Share Image
“Writing in a new style never hurt anybody. Upside: if it does, you can write about it!” — Jennifer Worrell Copy Share Image
“I write in acrobatics and pirouettes in the air - I write because I so deeply want to speak.” — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
