“If the voices in your head make you cry, you're a lunatic. Put their words on paper, and you're a writer.” — D. VonThaer Copy Share Image
The most important thing when starting out with essay writing is to find a voice with which you're comfortable. You need to… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats of taxis. I write… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your imagination and make them pop… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I haven't run out of ideas yet. Usually while I'm working on a book, I'm doing research for the next one! — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“When it first appeared, in 1943, it was called, by those critics who liked it, an honest book, and that is accurate… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
I remember travelling up and down the road, and I kept journals during my whole career, and I was always making notes… — The Ultimate Warrior Copy Share Image
Just remember, you must know everything well before you can know what to discard. You must cover pages with material you will… — Dorothy Bryant Copy Share Image
“He feels a kind of holy exaltation as he goes about the business of writing this story; he even feels that he… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence,… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
On a more practical level, anyone out there who wants to be a writer should clearly recognize that this is a brutal… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
There were always men looking for jobs in America. There were always all these usable bodies. And I wanted to be a… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Children's books do not exist in a vacuum, unrelated to literature as a whole. They are a portion of universal literature and… — Lillian H. Smith Copy Share Image
I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I sometimes wonder if what I create as a writer will leave any sort of dent. There's really no way of knowing,… — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
“When your only company are books and you know that you got the best company, your life becomes the infinite space between… — Luffina Lourduraj Copy Share Image
I read till I fall asleep. Daytime actually I feel guilty reading - I always feel I should be doing something else! — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
“When a writer uses his secret wounds as his starting point, he is, whether he is aware of it or not, putting… — Michael D. Jackson Copy Share Image
“The Indian always took two pairs of moccasins on his trips, because when one became wet or worn out, he always had… — W. Ben Hunt Copy Share Image
Writing must be a machine for breaking down, that is, allowing the now uncontrolled and uncontrollable reconstitutions of thoughts and expressions. All… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that. — Michael Tolkin Copy Share Image
There's a marvelous peace in not publishing, there's a stillness. When you publish, the world thinks you owe something. If you don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
There are so many fun things that you live that you can write about and people of all ages can connect to. — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
I do have a journal, that I write all my thoughts in every day. So that's kind of something. I also have… — Miranda Cosgrove Copy Share Image
Every writer is working from his own individual world view, and that can become as characteristic as a fingerprint. — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
My writing tends to become very dense, so I have to keep some cushion. Sometimes, words that seem superfluous are actually essential… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
My books definitely are ambassadors, as you called them. They express what the vision is, what the purpose is. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I would say that I am proud of my performance from Cracker and I think a lot of that was due to… — Boti Bliss Copy Share Image
I still retain a bit of a child's focus on things, so we [with my sister] figure if we're going to write… — Bob Weir Copy Share Image
One of the most productive times in my early writing life was while I had a full-time job as a word processor… — John Lescroart Copy Share Image
Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts… — David Grann Copy Share Image
My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published… — Alejandro Amenabar Copy Share Image
Necromancer gives readers what they've long waited for -- a rousing conclusion to the trilogy begun in Nomadin and continued in NiDemon.… — Robert E. Vardeman Copy Share Image
No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as… — Garret Dillahunt Copy Share Image
When you're a working writer, sooner or later friends and acquaintances will get you alone and confide that they, too, have a… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
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