For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“[About Ernest Hemingway] He’s a peach of a fellow and absolutely first-rate.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Writing is like life, the achievement’s all in the journey, not the destination.” — R.L. Bartram Copy Share Image
I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing. — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
I can tell you that I never begin working on a story until I have a title centered at the top of… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
“Just keep her away from bookstores, if you can." Bookstores. Thanks, Grayson. That helps. Apparently whoever said, "no harm ever came from… — Jena Leigh Copy Share Image
Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a first contact thing and I vaguely knew I wanted it to be in a beating the beast… — Lindsay Ellis Copy Share Image
I don't have problems starting writing. I have problems stopping. I'm one of the last dads to arrive at school to collect… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done,… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
If you want to be a fiction writer, you need to start reading like a fiction writer. To do so, you need… — John McNally Copy Share Image
I always give books. And I always ask for books. I think you should reward people sexually for getting you books. Don't… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Of course at that point I had no idea that the adventure was only beginning and that the struggle and the rejections… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
What the young writer is looking for is not a critic who will slap him on the back and say, 'Greatest thing… — Henry Sydnor Harrison Copy Share Image
My writing regimen is not very regimented. I tend to be a binge writer, working sometimes in the morning and sometimes all… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“Poor writing is lazy, careless writing, an attempt to communicate without adequate preparation or care. It is writing replete with passive construction,… — Mark Nichol Copy Share Image
People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called mad, and sometimes they're called fiction writers. I always feel… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Life is not a essay or speech instead its a Literature, where every end has a bew beginning. — Author Lekha Copy Share Image
It doesn't seem like I write the material it seems like the material comes to me and I write it down. — John Pinette Copy Share Image
“Reading books is like your own emotional and wishful life that you could see yourself living.” — Sarah Johnson Copy Share Image
“I always tried to write a story in such a manner that I wouldn't mind buying it myself.” — Carl Barks Copy Share Image
“Books because are the vehicle that takes my mind to places and times my body can't go.” — Jeffrey Michael Copy Share Image
...my basic belief about the making of stories is that they pretty much make themselves. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Hello, nice to meet you, I sell unreadable books to weird old people - want to get dinner?” — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Personally, I don't pick books for how people think about me. I read books so I can learn. — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
I got my first library card, for Hendon Library in north London, when I was two years old. — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock. — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it. — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
I haven't read enough books to consider myself a bookworm, but I enjoy reading. — Ellie Rowsell Copy Share Image
“My own heart is in my characters. My novels are my memories; they are the best part of me.” — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
“I'd be a better writer if I could type better. Or, maybe proofread better the first twelve times.” — Jack Shaw Copy Share Image
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