Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else. — Iris Chang Copy Share Image
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Good fiction is not defined by the masses, but by the tentative ear.” — James D. Maxon Copy Share Image
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution” — Jean Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Victoria Roberts spins an exciting Highland tale of intrigue, betrayal, and love with a braw Highland hero and strong English heroine any… — Hannah Howell Copy Share Image
Nothing I force myself to write about ever turns out well, and so I've learned to wait for the voice, the incident,… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the… — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
“How can you keep up with her, this woman who is always reading another book besides the one before her eyes, a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon,… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Writing is like pulling your hair out. You have nothing, and you can't think of anything, but you have to think of… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The greatest compliment I get about my writing is when people say, 'How did you know so much about me?' And of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
When I'm putting a story together, I generally know the ending and a couple of the points halfway through, and I've got… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
If someone's going to publish a book about addiction, it has to say something new and different. It has to be something… — Charles Adams Copy Share Image
Where are they written?" "In the world around us. Merely be attentive to what happens in your life, and you will discover… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
My writing process is chaos. I usually start with an overarching theme. Then I establish several story threads, but I don't outline.… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
“In college I retreated to the library. I have always loved libraries - the quiet, the smell, the expectation of imminent discovery.… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I feel better in my mind because I'm doing what God made me to do. He said, 'Go write books, Steve, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I invite you, wholeheartedly, to read books that remind you of your highest self and emancipate you from mental slavery or false… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
I love carrying feelings, it brings out the best in my writings !! — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Good writing is made up of characters who are bigger than their circumstances.” — Michael Knight Copy Share Image
Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I learned to write from different points of view and not just something I would say. — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
You know what's weird, I just write to write, with no intention, I just write. — Tommy Lee Copy Share Image
I'm a prolific overanalyzer. And I can always use 15 words in place of three 3, no matter what. — Maggie Grace Copy Share Image
“Look for your heros in the books people write, not in the people who write books.” — Ozzie Cheek Copy Share Image
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Those who can read, and don't, are only marginally better off than those who can't.” — Verne Harnish Copy Share Image
