I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted. — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
I don't know if I have a book in me, but I'm sure I have more essays. — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
“The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author,” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen. — Jack London Copy Share Image
As a little girl, I used to write stories, but by my teenage years, I got out of the habit. — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper. — Julien Green Copy Share Image
I had a writing professor at Brandeis who told me I'd never make it - and when I sold my first novel… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
“Literature is not at the service of the government; on the contrary, governments should do everything in their power to create a… — Murong Xuecun Copy Share Image
One of the books I remember reading when I was young and always thought would be a great role to play is… — Yvonne Strahovski Copy Share Image
I have to re-write a lot. I couldn't tell you how many drafts I write, but I know I've done at least… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
“People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
“How many books on manifesting will you buy before your realize that all you have manifested is a bunch of useless books?… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“His apartment is small and filled with books from the toilet tank to the top of the fridge. I think he has… — Jennifer Lynch Copy Share Image
Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“But my mother was aglow. She had a continuing fascination with celebrities, and now she had one of her own. She was… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was. My whole effort is to remove that distinction. The… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“The serious writer has always taken the flaw in human nature for his starting point, usually the flaw in an otherwise admirable… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
People who read books in public places are regarded with suspicion because they appear self-sufficient. When you seem self-sufficient, other people think… — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
“Because what it's come down to, after that whole messy spring, that whole tortured summer, all the time since, is this: I… — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
Writing a story requires you to understand how the world works, how characters think, how their emotions drive them to do surprising… — David Farland Copy Share Image
She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
As for thinking time versus writing time, well, that's up to you. But - and I wish it were otherwise - books… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Books are written so their authors can be heard, not so that they remain silent.” — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts. — Joseph Haydn Copy Share Image
A lot of young writers wait for inspiration. The inspiration only hits you at the desk. — Robert Anderson Copy Share Image
“They believed all books should be read, for as long as the reader liked.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Good fiction is life with all the boring bits taken out, not with all the hardship taken out.” — Caro Clarke Copy Share Image
Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average. — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
“Shelving books incorrectly is as good as stealing them. It's almost worse.” — Paul Acampora Copy Share Image
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature. — Ernst Fischer Copy Share Image
