Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at. — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
Go to Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, or any college and you'll see libraries, dormitories, and a lot of buildings that were a… — Foster Friess Copy Share Image
In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book.… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics,… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
My agent, Jeff Andrews, suggested I write a book. For some reason. he doesn't like it when I'm not doing anything. — Colin Mochrie Copy Share Image
Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room,… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
Try writing an entire story with only a thousand words at your disposal. It’s a terrific lesson in economy and precession. — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
There's a lot about being "A Writer" that has nothing to do with writing. That's one thing I've discovered. You've got to… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“We do not like the truth because it is simple, we do not want the truth because it is hard, and we… — Pat Walsh Copy Share Image
I've been an advocate against the view of the writer as a partitioned genius hanging in conceptual space, or up on a… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
After a while the business end of writing takes too much of the writing time. Better to pay someone ten percent and… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“People become librarians because they know too much. Their knowledge extends beyond mere categories. They cannot be confined to disciplines. They bring… — Erica Olsen Copy Share Image
“I don't know whether my nation will perish and I don't know which of my characters is right. I invent stories, confront… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this: A… — Robin Sloane Copy Share Image
“The thing to do is to go on, in the same suave tone, from uttering a series of banalities to expressing a… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“Now that I was a novelist, I could not face the ignominy of failing to produce novels.” — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“My limitless ability to weave time and space does not make me a god - just a da-n good writer.” — Edmund Alexander Sims Copy Share Image
Being a good observer is a great tool to have as a writer, just taking the world in. — Lauren Conrad Copy Share Image
There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading. — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story. — David Eddings Copy Share Image
I am a very personal writer. I write direct to the reader. I don't hold back. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
“From all old seamy throats of elders, musty books, I've salvaged not a word.” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I tend not to write books that are really, really long, and I'm also a pretty fast writer. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
