“To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
I'm a total ho for any writing workshop, any technique from anyone. — Travis Morrison Copy Share Image
“Amateurs try to write in one go; professionals draft and draft again.” — Alastair Fowler Copy Share Image
Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I think intellectualism can be a barrier to reading. The point of a book - song, film, whatever - is to FEEL… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“I cannot tell you how exciting it is when you first see your book in paperback, then when the good reviews roll… — Sue Stokes Copy Share Image
“I write with the entire alphabet, not just the popular letters. Readers don't want to lose themselves in the text. They want… — Mark R. Trost Copy Share Image
“a wish is a good place to start but then you have to get off your butt and make it happen. You… — Suzanne Selfors Copy Share Image
A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
I grew up with 'Jane Eyre,' reading it at school, and it's one of those, I think, for a lot of women,… — Sally Hawkins Copy Share Image
“any one who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, with extravagant enthusiasm.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you –… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“More books." His eyes went wide. "You have, like, then books you just said you haven't read." "Doesn't mean I won't get… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave… — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
“Interview on The Skiffy and Fanty Show 2010. In response to query that young adults may not be open to the nuances/realism… — Celine Kiernan Copy Share Image
When we have a favorite writer, it's always the places where they grew up, lived, worked, and that they recreated on the… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always… — Gary Kemp Copy Share Image
Write first. Worry about getting an agent or publisher later. Write it first. Prove you can do it and then others will… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't write the autobiographical first novel. I… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
I can't ever think of writing a book or an autobiography. I'm a little private person. — Randhir Kapoor Copy Share Image
REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“So you're a librarian." His eyes shifted back and forth. "I prefer loremaster.” — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library. — Bill Russell Copy Share Image
“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.” — René Descartes Copy Share Image
“For me writing has always been best when it's intimate, as sexy as skin on skin.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The greatest book is one written by your pen, but not exactly from your mind.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I find writing really difficult - definitely the most difficult of all the things I do. — Grant Heslov Copy Share Image
Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to be great. — Elizabeth Meriwether Copy Share Image
I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work. — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
