An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end. — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you. — Lincoln Child Copy Share Image
Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all. — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“A microphone is to a comic, what a pen is to a writer. There's power in it.” — Pamelar Hickinson Copy Share Image
I prefer to read print books. Maybe I'm just a little old-school. I do read e-books. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I love Dave Eggers. I hate Dave Eggers. If I could become any other living writer, I would answer faster than anyone… — James Bernard Frost Copy Share Image
I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
“I Love Books. I love that moment when you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into… — Elizabeth Scott Copy Share Image
My life in general, orderly or not, it allows me more freedom in my own writing. Sometimes I wonder, though - I… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
“These things matter. It’s tedious, I know. Any writer worth his weight in pulp would by now have set the hero along… — Gordon Highland Copy Share Image
I believe the personal essay is underrated for both writer and reader. It affords the writer great freedom: to speak personally yet… — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
The ideas always have to be in service of the story. And that's what Scott and the writers did - they weren't… — Adam Frank Copy Share Image
I didn't go to graduate school, where all the important writers seemed to be getting their start. I didn't pursue getting published… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
The only process that comes close to the process of writing a whole book, in my experience, is childbirth. There is this… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
“If reason be judge, no writer has produced such inconsistent characters as nature herself has. It must call for no small sagacity… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing more important than literary merit, and that’s why I not only created an award—the Julius Caesar Author of the Year… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“But I will take a page from the book of the Snow Scout leader, and skip ahead to the next interesting thing… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“One might be well read but surely has not read it all. So chill you are at par.” — Talees Rizvi Copy Share Image
It's just satisfying for me to be able to write kind of like a finished, nice product. — Jonny Lang Copy Share Image
“It is always more pleasant to meet with one who is a bookman than with one who is not.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One Best Book is Equal To Hundred Good Friends But One Good Friend is Equal To A Library. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey — John Cheever Copy Share Image
The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
“Like every fiction, Holly Golightly was a composite of multiple nonfictions.” — Sam Wasson Copy Share Image
“Being a writer is a lot like being a mother, only books don't talk back when they get older.” — Nandi Berry Copy Share Image
“It has become unecesssary for the police to ban books: their price alone bans them.” — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
