When I write, it's almost like it really sets in my brain. I don't ever go back and read it. — Jon Rahm Copy Share Image
What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story. — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
“Books are like friends you can never put them down no matter how much you hate it...” — morgan Copy Share Image
You have to take pains in a memoir not to hang on the reader's arm, like a drunk, and say, 'And then… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
All along, my mantra was: Don't write unless it contributes to the emotion, and do anything you do in service of the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“I think I will remain here and work on my manuscript," Christine decided. "Going about talking to the locals sounds dreadfully boring.… — Jordan L. Hawk Copy Share Image
There are a few writers that one has a relationship with that means, basically, you do whatever they say. One is Caryl… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
I write for myself, first and foremost and I also write for people, mostly women, who just want to be seen and… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Whatever the reasons, reading somehow awakens something in a kid's life that makes them take their own life more seriously and other… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
Beautifully written, intensely passionate and gripping, FALLEN grabbed me from the first sentence and didn’t let go. Its eerie future world and… — Linnea Sinclair Copy Share Image
I dislike that premise implies that a fiction writer is incapable of dreaming up stories that can bring readers to tears, that… — Leslie Pietrzyk Copy Share Image
Once I had started, I discovered the secret pleasure of writing a novel. It's such an immersive, deep commitment. With short stories,… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
The writing is - I'm free from pain. It's the place where I live; it's where I have control; it's where nobody… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I don't think Donald Barthelme would have minded being called a confusing writer. Confusion was a favorite subject for him in his… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
“Literature is a source of pleasure, he said, it is one of the rare inexhaustible joys in life, but it's not only… — Laurence Cossé Copy Share Image
Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Men of learning are those who have read the contents of books. Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The morning is always my best time of the day for writing because that's when my head is best. — Zoe Foster Blake Copy Share Image
Most of the time, we write something and then figure out who would be best to do it. — Tim Heidecker Copy Share Image
Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working. — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
“I don't write because I want to write. I do it because I have to. I just wish it was my day… — Stephanie Michel Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to figure out ways to keep hold of memories. My one-sentence journal, for instance. — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing. — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
“The goal is not to be famous. The goal is to write. And to love doing it every day.” — C.G. Coppola Copy Share Image
I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time. — Stanley Tucci Copy Share Image
“few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
