I'm a writer who never writes about sex. It's so far from my own fictional world. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift.” — Michael J. Kannengieser Copy Share Image
I feel that the world needs writers. We need to know what's really going on. — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
I choose this story above all others because it's a story I'm struggling to end. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“She who is a dancer can only sway the silk of her hair like the summer breeze.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
Writing is not the lottery. New writers have to be realistic about what it takes to get published. But there is one… — Lori Perkins Copy Share Image
I can't really write unless I'm full of inspiration. And even then I can't write unless I have some alone time. — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
“Good fiction can help us to expand our circle of empathy to include people unlike ourselves.- R' Eitan Levy” — Eitan Levy Copy Share Image
I get very weird and defensive about what I'm working on - I wouldn't even tell my secretary what the next page… — Joan Juliet Buck Copy Share Image
I don't personally like the e-readers they've come up with so far. I don't fetishize books, but I do like that they're… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“After reading a good book, something must change in you! If nothing changed, then you can be sure that you haven't read… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
If you get discouraged about a section of a novel, that can be more catastrophic than getting discouraged about an individual story. — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
“A poetess is not as selfish as you assume. After months of agonising over her marriage of words—the bride— and spaces—the groom,… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“I read a lot of Agatha Christie's that fall of 1938 - maybe all of them. The Hercule Poirots, the Miss Marples.… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
The best time to write is when your life is in the toilet. Writing offers an escape from your problems, so if… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
“A good writer is also an avid reader. A good reader is also a vivid dreamer. A good dreamer is also a… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“When reading a book, one hopes it doesn’t turn into a painful process. Predictable is bad enough. Laborious is acceptable if the… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
Early on in life I knew that I was a writer, that I just wanted to write, I love books, I love… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I love the beautiful distractions of the world - television and movies, video games, the Internet in general. But I try really… — Nick Petrie Copy Share Image
In addition to being a writer, I'm a librarian - professionally trained and everything. — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
I couldn't possibly write 'Next to Normal,' but God, I can weep and watch 'Next to Normal' five times. — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself. — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
“The truth is, we don't have an easy language for emotional life. That's why we have writers.” — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing. — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
New writers seem to pop up from everywhere. And quite a few of them are really good and original. — Toni Jerrman Copy Share Image
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I'm glad to know I will never live long enough to run out of books to read.” — self Copy Share Image
I love telling stories that allow people to be less afraid to tell theirs. — Gina Rodriguez Copy Share Image
For me writing is foremost a mode of thinking and when it works well, an act of discovery — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper. — Jim Capaldi Copy Share Image
