Neal Shusterman is a phenomenal writer, he's known for his young-adult books. — Cherie Currie Copy Share Image
Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves. — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“Only Dostoevsky can be Dostoevskian at such long, tumultuous stretches; look what intensity did to poor Van Gogh!” — John Tagliabue Copy Share Image
There's no path to being a writer that's applicable to everyone. Some young writers have the fortitude to work in a vacuum.… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
I guess my use-by date is just about up but if I could come back as a storyteller now, I would be… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
I write in my own journal when something extraordinary or funny happens. And there's some nice imagery in there. I don't think… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
When I was 11, I knew that I wanted to write a kid's book and tell the world what it was like… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
I think someday you're going to be a great writer," he said. "But" he added maliciously, "first you'll have to suffer a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
You can sit there, tense and worried, freezing the creative energies, or you can start writing something. It doesn't matter what. In… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“A writer must stand on the rock of her self and her judgment or be swept away by the tide or sink… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
I've heard some writers say that they are obsessed with certain ideas and that they find themselves writing around the same obsession… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Against the sustained tick of a watch, fiction takes the measure of a life, a season, a look exchanged, the turning point,… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
“Not all books are created equally, but, all books are created.” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue. — Leslie Charteris Copy Share Image
If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“On getting lost in a book. Set adrift A life unknown Connections form Love is sewn” — Patty Wiseman Copy Share Image
To feel that literature has any politically redemptive power at all just seems increasingly naive. — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
I go on many thrilling adventures and wondrous, profound escapades through books. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“OK, now write for ten minutes, keep the hand moving, tell me what you carry.” — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I have been writing now for over a week. I find it cleansing, refreshing; it is good for me.” (p.531) — Storm Constantine Copy Share Image
“Nerd Girl Problem #486 Being asked why you're reading a YA book when you're over 25” — pintrest Copy Share Image
I've always measured a good day as one where I can read, write, and run. — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
