I'm like a blue-collar writer. I just sit down every day and I write. — Philip Kan Gotanda Copy Share Image
Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“Learning comes from books; penetration of a mystery from suffering.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I have all of Pu La's books and have reread each and every one of his works, multiple times. — Ashok Saraf Copy Share Image
Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage.… — Jim McKelvey Copy Share Image
We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Hardwick told me once that all her first drafts sounded as if a chicken had written them. So do mine for… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
“Mind being the seat of the soul, and literature being the expression of the mind, literature, it follows, is the soul of… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
“Literature has been our salvation, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.” — John Cheever Copy Share Image
I always think that my assignment is to seek out stories that are experienced by people who don't get the ticket for… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Nothing in the last few years has dazzled me more than Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall,' which blew the top of my head… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
read widely, not in order to copy someone else's style, but to learn to appreciate and recognize good writing and to see… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
PRIMAL TEARS is a novel of tremendous power. Passionate and erotic, at times tenderly lyrical, it confronts head-on, without flinching, brutal environmental… — Kate Wilhelm Copy Share Image
Because there is nothing I would rather do than rummage through bookshops, I went at once to Hastings & Sons Bookshop upon… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
I create my own schedule, so you start out each day and you say, "Okay, from 10 to 11 I'm going to… — Sarah Jaffe Copy Share Image
When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“I still write so as not to feel alone in the world, but now I type. What is lost in the process… — Cory Taylor Copy Share Image
USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Writing is about bringing words together to fullfill a purpose!!” — Angela Y. Hodge Copy Share Image
The only thing that's authentic about what a writer writes is his work. — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
The more you write, the faster you'll write, and the less you'll mind throwing stuff out. — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
“Marshall McLuhan predicted books would become art objects at some point. He was right.” — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“Writer is always alone. But every author is a creator, and gods are lonely.” — Lara Biuts Copy Share Image
I wrote my first history book when I was four. I still have it so I can prove it. — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph. — Hector Tobar Copy Share Image
I spend three hours a day writing and the rest of my day getting over it. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favorites — John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Copy Share Image
“This story inspires me to contribute with something unique and exciting for my time.” — Simon Zingerman Copy Share Image
I love discussing the ins and outs of the collaborative nature of writing. — Jim Rash Copy Share Image
