I like to write about certain things that if they are not written about are not going to exist. — James Salter Copy Share Image
This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“Write because you love it, not because you want to become rich. Your story will be better for it.” — Lana Axe Copy Share Image
“What are you reading, my dear? A pretty sight, a lady with a book.” — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
When I was at school I wanted to be a writer and an actress. Then this whole modelling thing happened. — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
“I valued that half-dream state of being lost in a book so much that I limited the number of pages I let… — Allison Hoover Bartlett Copy Share Image
Those who will not take the trouble to think for themselves, have always somebody that thinks for them; and the difficulty in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No complaining about how hard it is to write, we are all so, so lucky to write, to sit down, inside, and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I'm a writer, first and foremost, and I sort of take my cues from the songwriters of the '70s, who are talking… — Tift Merritt Copy Share Image
I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
The most despised sector of Hollywood are the writers. A good writer is quickly promoted to a 'concept man' - and then… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The conventional use of words and of narrative structure is deliberately subverted in decadent fiction; language deviates from the established norms in… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Alexis Coe rescues a buried but extraordinarily telling episode from the 1890s that resonates in all sorts of ways with today. That… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The effect of Amazon’s monopsony in the book business is to constantly force authors and publishers to work for less money. In… — Jonathan Taplin Copy Share Image
The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“In a few minutes I heard the books' voices: a low, steady, unsupressible hum. I'd heard it many times before. I've always… — Martha Cooley Copy Share Image
At difficult times of my life, books have been an incredible comfort. When I was 12, I changed schools and my parents… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
“Some writers might tell you that writing is like a piece of magic - a process of creating something out of nothing,… — Billy Marshall Stoneking Copy Share Image
Every writer knows a lot more about their characters and story than actually makes it onto the page. — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Can a selfish egocentric jealous and unimaginative female write a damn thing worthwhile? — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“My reasons for writing had to be my own, divorced from expectation.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“Grabbed my duffel, my toothbrush, and a signed copy of my favorite book. Just the essentials.” — C.M. Stunich Copy Share Image
Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state. — John Barth Copy Share Image
My youngest son is a writer. He wrote for 'The District' and 'CSI: NY. — Craig T. Nelson Copy Share Image
I really like stories, so in a way it doesn't matter for me if they are real or fiction. — Volker Bertelmann Copy Share Image
“I write because, if I don't, my characters will murder me in my sleep.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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