“The farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources.” — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“...if you've got writer's block, you aren't empty - maybe it's just like Twitter - overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Sometimes I write about things that never happened to me that wind up happening to me. When you put things out in… — Chad Kroeger Copy Share Image
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing is 90% procrastination. It is a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in… — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“We have fiction mimicking truth, and truth mimicking fiction. We have a dangerous overlap, a dangerous blur. And in all probability it… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was… — Michael Tolkin Copy Share Image
“Reading is action. Even though it is often done quietly and alone, reading is a profoundly social activity, and a vigorous and… — J. Paul Hunter Copy Share Image
I would walk into the Carnegie Library and I would see the pictures of Booker T. and pictures of Frederick Douglass and… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
I don't feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it's so old-fashioned. I… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The selection of a subject is to the author what choice of position is to the general,--once skilfully determined, the battle is… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
It can be difficult workshopping novels because any questions or qualms you have as the author can be like, 'That's next chapter,… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of… — Carol Leifer Copy Share Image
I've come to the possible conclusion that being a comedic writer/director is like running track. You do it for a certain amount… — David Wain Copy Share Image
“The writer's silent mind is a period of intermission before orchestrating a symphony of words.” — Khaled Talib Copy Share Image
“Writing at its best is simply taking dictation from your soul.” — Catherine Carrigan Copy Share Image
Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good. — Mercedes Ruehl Copy Share Image
For me, writing clarifies things. It gives meaning, and it makes me see the connections. — Firoozeh Dumas Copy Share Image
The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books. — Cheech Marin Copy Share Image
“By its very nature, a writer’s mind is a monkey mind — and meditation, alas, kills the monkey.” — Mara Altman Copy Share Image
To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Books educate and inspire, and they soothe souls -- like comfort food without the calories.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
What you must accept is that your life is not going to be the same while you are writing. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
If I could say anything to aspiring writers, it's to keep your own counsel, first and foremost. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Since I have become a slave of writing, the pleasure of reading has ended for me.” — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
