“I will always love being a writer. There is nothing greater than that.” — Millicent Ashby Copy Share Image
The writer who cares about usage must always know the quick from the dead. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
She could smell the pages. She could almost taste the words as they stacked up around her. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
A lot of writing is everybody being revealed, but the reader should feel like only they are being revealed. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I think that the best fiction is directly rooted in an ability to identify and tell the psychological truth about people.” — Alistair Cross Copy Share Image
Most writers live in self-imposed exile, even when they don't leave their country. They prefer the undiscovered country inside their own heads. — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Any writer knows he has to pay for his compliments. As soon as he has said, Why, thank you, that's very generous… — Mary Jane Ward Copy Share Image
You're reluctant to give too much away when you're going to put it out there for other people. It's harder writing your… — Kathleen Edwards Copy Share Image
“I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but to a vague spot a little to the east… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The Library was outmoded and archaic—it had been so even in Ebling Mis's time—but that was all to the good. Pelorat always… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Research serves fiction best when it's dissolved entirely into the work, reprecipitated only to be embodied in characters, images, and the sensual… — Christopher Beha Copy Share Image
Objectifying your own novel while writing it never really helps. Instead, I guess while you're writing you need to think: This is… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. That means trying to understand, take in, connect with, what… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I write at a standing desk, which has helped me be much more productive and solved some back problems, but mostly all… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
I have only written what I experienced, what I saw, what I learned first-hand. — Mohamedou Ould Slahi Copy Share Image
Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
“There are only three things I do. I read. I write. And I fart glitter.” — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it? — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I'm a middle-class, middle-brow novelist. And that's it. It amuses me. — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books. — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters. — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The downside of word processing - it's quite possible to never end a work-in-progress. — Jim Starlin Copy Share Image
What's kind of weird is that when I'm writing I don't know where I'm going to go. — Jazmine Sullivan Copy Share Image
