When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works. — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
One of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this need to over-explain. — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41. — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
The world has gotten smaller and more accessible since I first started writing in the 70's. — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
Most copywriters are like engines. They take a while to warm up to get to the point. — Drayton Bird Copy Share Image
I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing. — John Sandford Copy Share Image
“That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn’t match reality.” — Stefanos Livos Copy Share Image
We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I think my writing process changes as I gain more life experience... It has taken me many years to be able to… — Kathleen Winter Copy Share Image
“Mina penned the jubilant words into her blue spiral notebook with her favorite ballpoint pen. She faithfully used the same pen when… — Chanda Hahn Copy Share Image
“Advice from a Romance Writer: Guys, make your woman feel pretty even on an 'off' day. Trust me, good things will come… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
I want to write some books. Books that have nothing to do with music, just some fiction type of books for a… — Jhene Aiko Copy Share Image
“When a writer is able to experience the whole range of human emotions, from deep depressions to glorious highs, it creates a… — David Perry Copy Share Image
“It is the highest reward when a writer hears when a book written in doubt and solitude, has reached a human heart… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“But there is also the minority of gifted, wilful people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“They are more real than the books on the shelves, books that are sketched with the barest hint of a line here… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Books are the food of the soul. Good and wholesome food given to a hungry body will nourish it, but if the… — Anthony Mary Claret Copy Share Image
“We do need to bring to our writing, over and over again, all the abundance we possess. To be able, to be… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to… — Leo C Rosten Copy Share Image
A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
One gets infected, it is true, by the style of a work that one has been reading — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not. — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
The burning soul, the burden'd mind, In books alone companions find. — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
“To friends and books, and friends in books, may our stories be long and our friendships longer.” — Molly MacRae Copy Share Image
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart. — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young! — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
I like Hemingway and I like a lot Jewish writers (such as) Saul Bellow. — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
Isolated in the oncology ward, I began to think about my dream to become a writer. — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
Just because suddenly you have a sabbatical doesn't mean that the writing occasion comes to you. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
