The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I grew up in a house without many books. The books the nuns made us read in school didn't interest me. — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Even if I couldn't get my early novels published, I could still write. I went into newspapers, where I got paid to… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is like raising a child, the only difference is you don’t have the fucking part in writing a book.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
The danger in writing about a world you don't know very well is that you can get lost in it, and sometimes… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“It's the truth, though rarely admitted, that every autobiographical work has a touch of fiction and every fiction has a touch of… — Santosh Kumar Das Copy Share Image
When things were not going right for me, writing was the only thing that kept my equilibrium right, it has always been… — Aditya Dhar Copy Share Image
Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I write every day weekdays for about 5 hours, mostly longhand on legal pads. It has gotten neither harder nor easier, sadly… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I personally have a great deal of respect for readers. I have a great deal of respect for the human race. I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“..reading a book doesn’t mean just turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I want to keep growing as a writer. I find myself doing unexpected projects and sort of challenging my idea of where… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“From the judge who lifted the Philadelphia ban on Never Love a Stranger, on Harold’s books: “I would rather my daughter learn… — Harold Robbins Copy Share Image
All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I consider myself a writer who writes about American expatriates. And if I have any overt cause as a writer besides writing… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background. — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there... — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“Books are open doors to other dimensions where everything is possible and nothing is forbidden.” — Danny Tyran Copy Share Image
I am at my worst trying to write about things that overlap with my life. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years. — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey. — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
I believe a writer's most important skill lies in being able to see things from different perspectives. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for. — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
In 1910, eighty-two-year-old Leo Tolstoy flees from his wife and dies in a railway station of exposure. — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
