Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people. — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share Image
I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
A script writer usually manipulates his characters in accordance to the script. — Vetrimaaran Copy Share Image
“Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start.” — Jo Linsdell Copy Share Image
Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write. — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
Libraries hold the wisdom of the world and the stories of the ages - available to everyone, free of charge! — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Solitude and quiet are highly desirable, but the lack of them is no barrier to writing... The will to work builds all… — John Braine Copy Share Image
Don't just plan to write - write. It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
It's a lot easier to act when the writing is good. Nothing is more frustrating than trying to figure out 'Well, why… — Anna Kendrick Copy Share Image
I do think reading is the best practice for writing, along with writing all the time. I actually never liked writing on… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
Both Proust and Joyce record the ways in which human perspectives can be transformed. In Portrait, Stephen Dedalus is constantly undergoing epiphanies,… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Literature...describes a descent. First, gods. Then demigods. Then epic became tragedy: failed kings, failed heroes. Then the gentry. Then the middle class… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen,… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
You try to learn who you are. You work hard. You've either got it or you don't when it comes to writing… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I'm not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it's really that simple. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I'll write about California someday, I imagine, but I don't know when. — Tom Barbash Copy Share Image
The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
A book is a silent teacher, and a precious and indispensable companion in life. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
I don't do a lot of foisting, because when it comes to books I don't really like to be foisted upon. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
You can't tell a doper well under control from a vegetarian book-keeper. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“We are as liable to be corrupted by books as we are by companions.” — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“I didn't start writing late. I started when the story was ready and so was I. Writing@55” — Trice McIntyre Copy Share Image
When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair. — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer. — Johnathon Schaech Copy Share Image
When people ask what you do, tell them you're a writer. Put yourself on the line. Make a commitment. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
