“I never really chose to be a writer. It's just always been what I do. Writing chose me...” — Té Russ Copy Share Image
“Writing - the act of one person giving a piece of their soul to another.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Living life distracts from writing. Writing distracts from living life. Therein lies the conundrum.” — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about being an American writer is you've got this vastness to draw from. — David Means Copy Share Image
“Don't read a book to let the time pass...let the time pass to read a book.” — Nicholaa Spencer Copy Share Image
What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth. — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture and the blinders of one's narrow self. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
I write when I have something to say and not when I don't. My time is better spent if I know I… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
It's not that I don't enjoy other people, but what I find with writers is this back and forth. And also, there's… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“but God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends.” — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
In fiction, you are not limited by real facts. You can manipulate reality; you can invent without being disloyal to the essence… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation… — Fukuzawa Yukichi Copy Share Image
Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
You have to appreciate the spiritual component of having an opportunity to do something as wondrous as writing. You should be practical… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
The act of writing bears something in common with the act of love. The writer, at his most productive moments, just flows.… — Sidney Jourard Copy Share Image
I had a blog where I tried to be transparent while giving away nothing. I tweeted and Facebooked badly. As a writer,… — Ellen Potter Copy Share Image
I haven't had trouble with writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“All that can be done is for each of us to invent our own ideal library of our classics; and I would… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I've had my nose in a book my whole life. I never thought it would be useful, but it is now. What's… — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
The fact that people go to Portland to visit a tiny feminist bookstore-no matter what the impetus is for them getting there-the… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Writing is what's important to me, and anything that helps me do that - or enhances and prolongs and deepens and sometimes… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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