The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
All the nice things about Suzanne are me. All the things that aren't nice, that was just the writing. — Delta Burke Copy Share Image
Fiction writing and journalism, in my experience, are really excellent training grounds for each other. — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
Worthy books Are not companions – they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares. — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
“I feel that I have so many books yet to read and so little time to do so” — MBarreto Condado Copy Share Image
All my writing is fun, and that makes it hard to slow down or walk away. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“The reader lives a thousand lives, while the non-reader only lives one.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writing can be a splendid headache. Fun when words spill forth like a raging river and a catastrophic, hair-pulling experience when they… — Adam Santo Copy Share Image
Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising. — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
“A lot of people assume you can think better with a slow diet of books, but that will not be the case… — Tony Reinke Copy Share Image
Linda Brewer's example is inspiring, colorful and potentially very funny. Her journey also exists firmly in the Heartland tradition of American success… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Never get too attached to the first draft of anything – this includes writing, art, homes, love. You will revise and revise… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
My primary motivation for writing is to communicate my perceptions and insights into the human condition, in a way that may provide… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
“...I happen to be the kind of author who in starting to work on a book has no purpose than to get… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“There’s more mystical nonsense written about the process of writing than almost anything. Inspiration, genius, “the muse.” So I want to lay… — Charles Finch Copy Share Image
Writing helps us heal in certain way, but it doesn't make the experience of thinking about writing that occasion any less painful.… — Sarah Gerard Copy Share Image
Writing the short story is essentially an act of grace. It's not a matter of will so much as trust. I try… — Paulette Alden Copy Share Image
I do not often follow my characters off on tangents or change my story on a whim. I have an outline which… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Historians, to be sure, have subsequently dug about in the byways of American culture and exposed signs of rebellion and dissatisfation with… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Just because someone has stylistic limitations doesn't necessarily make them a worse writer. — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
If you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it by example. — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
A piece of writing takes exactly as long as it needs to be done right. — Norma Fox Mazer Copy Share Image
“...too much time spent with books had not fitted her to be easy with herself, and other people.” — Jo Baker Copy Share Image
It is not as easy to emigrate with steel mills as it is with the manuscript of a novel. — Golo Mann Copy Share Image
“I like nothing better in this world than a good clean book, brother.” — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“It isn’t the pen—it’s the writer; it isn’t the road—it’s the runner that counts.” — Dr. Shad Helmstetter Copy Share Image
A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder. — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
Most writing doesn’t take place on the page; it takes place in your head. — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
