“Read as widely and as deeply as you can. You have to be a reader before you can be a writer.” — Y.S. Lee Copy Share Image
Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
My books are, in a way, a record of my life - that part of it that came to flower and fruit… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“That’s what I try to do—write sentences that won’t be like sand castles.” — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Ir you're a writer, reading is part of your job description. ~ Mark Rubinstein” — Mark Rubinstein Copy Share Image
Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I looked back at some high school journals and discovered that I definitely wanted to be a writer, but not necessarily comedy. — Allison Silverman Copy Share Image
“It's when people begin to fancy that they actually know something about literature that they cease to be literarily interesting, or even… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible. — Samuel Barber Copy Share Image
Who are those ever multiplying authors that with unparalleled fecundity are overstocking the world with their quick succeeding progeny? They are novel-writers. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
I'm a writer and a feminist of color, and I've written complex, powerful women for my entire career. I'm just one voice,… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
I love to read and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have.… — Mary Mouser Copy Share Image
“I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of… — John Bright Copy Share Image
“Being a novelist is not the sort of thing we can shut off. It infests every bit of us until we lose… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
If you're a photographer, they give you a camera. If you're a writer, they give you a typewriter. If you're an umpire,… — Doug Harvey Copy Share Image
Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
Writing can be such a lonely endeavor that I do think community is also important.Meeting at cafes and exchanging work and reading… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Readers tell me that my novels are filled with significant mothers. Do I realize this? Do I do it on purpose? The… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“This, above all, ask yourself in the stillest hour of the night: must I write? Delve deep into yourself. And if this… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day. Then I knew what the problem was. I needed… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Haven't I told you scores of times, that you're always beginners, and the greatest satisfaction was not in being at the top,… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
