I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar. — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own. — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. Don't be afraid to shake it up. — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
That's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Real life isn't required to be logical, but fiction has to make sense. — Leigh Michaels Copy Share Image
“Now called for something drastically un-running away. Now called for--what? Suddenly I had it. Now called for being a librarian! (--Sally Jay… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
“I don’t get writer's block because I don’t believe in it. I believe you sit in front of the computer and force… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“For a child a library needs to be round the corner. And if we lose local libraries it is children who will… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I'd always wanted to be a… — Ben Richards Copy Share Image
People who want to express themselves effectively can learn a lot from the hard-won concision of the copywriter. — David Droga Copy Share Image
I have always thought of myself as a writer, only because I need things to direct, and I can't not write the… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
It must have meant something, though, that at this turn of my life I grabbed up a book. Because it was in… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Fundamentally, I started writing to save my life. Yes, my own life first. I see the same impulse in my students-the dark,… — Cherrie Moraga Copy Share Image
Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,000 words… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
The Book of Telling tells of a woman's journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I take it for granted that there's a side of me that loves public action, and there's another side of me that… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Each time I have the urge in me to make a statement or send a message or to issue a manifesto, I… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible! — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“The best thing about being a writer is the joy of creating a story that’s never been told before.” — Rae Copy Share Image
Robert Jordan, whether he's writing with passion or not, I don't know. — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I'm usually writing about survival. I never planned it, but it runs through all my books. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“She handles the books tenderly, a glow of utter devotion on here face.” — Kim Church Copy Share Image
I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over. — Eugene Field Copy Share Image
I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
