First and foremost, that's what I am, I'm a writer. I can't draw worth a darn. I don't draw, I write. — Greg Weisman Copy Share Image
“There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There are times when I'm really happy and I write something really sad, and vice versa. — Juan Gabriel Copy Share Image
I think every writer is in search of the truth. We are trying to psychoanalyze ourselves. — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
What I really care about is writing... Some people feel about touring the way I feel about writing, which is, 'Whoa, I… — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
“BUILDING A SUCCESSFUL BRAND IS CONVINCING THE FULL BELLY THAT IT IS STILL HUNGRY AND HAS ROOM FOR MORE. BE, THE MORE… — Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier Copy Share Image
“She lays the book face down on her chest. Already her bedroom (no, their bedroom) feels more densely inhabited, more actual, because… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when… — Kate Thompson Copy Share Image
The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
A Touch of Crimson explodes with passion and heat. A hot, sexy angel to die for and a gutsy heroine make for… — Cheyenne McCray Copy Share Image
“Annie Dillard was a pioneer in her Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1974. Among other notable examples… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
When I start writing, the first line might come from reality, but the second and the third one, I have to write… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
“People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
I don't really think that writers, even great writers, are prophets, or sages, or Messiah-like figures; writing is a lonely, sedentary occupation… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn't really start to read well until high school. I never… — Lauren Tarshis Copy Share Image
“Writing, when properly managed (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. As no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I loved it so much I was sorry to finish it. I closed the book and shocked myself by thinking, This is… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Now some people when they sit down to write and nothing special comes, no good ideas, are so frightened that they drink… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“I spent most of my free time reading. It was a great escape from reality” — Teresa Mummert Copy Share Image
“the thing you are most afraid to write write that -- advice to young writers” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
I guess for me Hemingway is a lot like it is for others: he goes down well when we are young. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future. — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
There are two types of people in this world: Gypsy and Gadge. Which one am I? Neither. I'm a writer. — Allison Mackie Copy Share Image
Write letters to your editors, write to your members of Congress, and write to your news stations. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written. — Dean Wesley Smith Copy Share Image
“Bookworms aren't people who love to read. They are people who treat books as treasures. Anonymous” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
