I do not mind if you think slowly, but I do object when you publish more quickly than you think. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you. — Arthur Plotnik Copy Share Image
War and Peace maddens me because I didn't write it myself, and worse, I couldn't. — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an old young writer. Beyond… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson. — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
What you have to get used to as a writer is realizing that most of what you come up with is wrong… — Michael Loceff Copy Share Image
“Books were the main reason Rose worked in bookstores, for no matter how chaotic and strange the worlds in them might be,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If a story seems too random, or perhaps too brilliant, for a "madman" to have conceived of it himself, then consider that… — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
As a creator of character his peculiarity is that he creates wherever his eyes rest ... With such a power at his… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
For the kind of places I've written for and the kind of writing that I've done, the general way to think about… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
It's the typical mid-life crisis kind of thing, where you just stop and wonder, 'Should I go back to university and get… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I'm sure I have a story, I call my collaborators and we begin to discuss it. And we conduct studies of… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
When I started out, I didn't have any writing routine, I had a job. Writing was a hobby I indulged in over… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
“It was a tricky quality that suggested, well, magic and things read in books,” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“My life as well as my writing are guided by creed in lieu of clichés Carl Henegan” — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I'm writing about. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It's more fun to write stuff when you know someone's going to nail it. — Riki Lindhome Copy Share Image
A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Any adult with an ID can get a free “reader identification” and use the library.” — Patricia Schultz Copy Share Image
Read and write with a sensitive ear. The craft of writing is very important. Practice the craft. — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Being a writer brings out a sassy woman inside me, and I love her so.” — Anna Bayes Copy Share Image
“Very few authors, especially the unpublished, can resist an invitation to read aloud.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Anyone who goes into writing has to find out somewhere along the line, he's either naive or insane. — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one. — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
