“ I write for the beauty of the printed word" from PREFACE to BIPOLAR BUFFALO” — Anthony Antek Copy Share Image
“When a writer has chosen a topic, he or she has really chosen numerous topics.” — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
I am always writing. It is not always good, but if I am writing, I am usually happy. — Matthew Nable Copy Share Image
“That was one of the bad things about being able to read: people could nag you from a great distance.” — Ruth Downie Copy Share Image
A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“The paradox of writing is that you’re trying to use words to express what words can’t express.” — Stephen Fischer Copy Share Image
I'm always aware of writing around things I can't do, and I've come to think that that's actually what 'style' is -… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and,… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people. — Henry Williamson Copy Share Image
Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“You are either in a state of perfection or a state of learning. Reading is one of the best ways to learn… — Cupideros Copy Share Image
“imagine somebody exactly like you on a small island somewhere, and that you are writing for them and them alone. Find simple… — Jane Davis Copy Share Image
“As it stands there is a very strong argument that as the book trade becomes increasingly corporate it's our literary heritage that… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Preserving that privacy between a writer and the work is important. You have to shut out all those voices that have reacted… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
As a writer, you're really in control of almost everything. That's not the case in TV. You have to be prepared to… — Josh Elliott Copy Share Image
When I go into a bookstore I always look for books by John Fante. If they are out-of-stock on one of his… — John Fante Copy Share Image
What I feel is there are certain demands that you have to satisfy in any piece of writing. When it's just for… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
“There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry –… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she walked away from thinking,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Axiom : Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“If you don't love what you write, then nobody's going to enjoy reading it.” — T.A. Uner Copy Share Image
Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being. — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life. — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Writing on 'Love' is so steeped in self-analysis. The writer's room can feel like therapy. — Paul Rust Copy Share Image
No time you spend writing will be wasted - even if you write something that's bad. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Love paints the heart so delicate; so why would my words ever borrow the ink of their own demise?” — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
I'm glad I have a story to tell. It's unique, it's mine, and I'm blessed to have it. — Chris Harris, Jr Copy Share Image
This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“Life is what happens in-between writing; almost always a necessary inconvenience.” — Ivor W. Hartmann Copy Share Image
