My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I don't remember a lot of what I write. I try to release it after it's out there so that I can… — George Meyer Copy Share Image
Now I've got a fairly good grasp of the 18th century on what was common and what people thought. But I don't… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Two very simple rules: A. You don't have to write. B. You can't do anything else The rest comes of itself. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“When a first date really works, it works like this: You feel the thrill of opening to the first page of a… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
That's why I have to be a fiction writer, because I can't remember what just happened or where I went last week… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
“I write about subectivety-and inarticulation-about life pushing you into a state where everything is melting until you're left with the absolute and… — Deirdre Madden Copy Share Image
Mostly I'm writing about people, so I feel constrained to take with me my view of people, my curiosity about how people… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
When you reach a place where you feel blocked, lower your standards and keep on going. There is no possible way to… — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
“You must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“John Armato, a Public relations executive, cherishes his growing Library of Candidates. When people ask him if he's actually read all those… — Steve Leveen Copy Share Image
“The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one... If a writer… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Every first draft sucks, so when you have your favorite novel, and you're like, 'Wow, this is a masterpiece,' and then you… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
I never understood how one could write a whole book: It is so technically challenging, and it's incredible the way writers put… — Ben Howard Copy Share Image
“writing consists of thinking of a cool idea, making the promotional art and trailers and never write it” — me, a professional Copy Share Image
Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I didn't really get serious about my own writing until I was convinced it was something that I wanted to do, that… — Owen King Copy Share Image
When I got into "Anna Karenina" and "Brothers Karamazov" and "Crime and Punishment," that was the stuff that - that had a… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“Most authors would be the first to admit the best of their writing is beyond even them. It comes from someplace outside… — K.M. Weiland Copy Share Image
“I want to speak to you about the treasures hidden in books; and about the way we find them, and the way… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed. — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
“I hate being a writer. i tend to stick my emotions in things that cannot reciprocate. I've become a whore for my… — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
I feel like I give myself all day long to other people and other things, and I still seem like I have… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
But I'm more of a recluse when it comes down to being a writer and being a creative person rather than being… — Denny Laine Copy Share Image
After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
Whenever I work with different artists, I expand as a song writer, as a producer, and I always want to try and… — Steve Aoki Copy Share Image
“TEN MINUTES LATER, we were at the door of “Lake Expectations,” the Monroes’ cabin retreat, named after Mr. Monroe’s favorite book.” — James Howe Copy Share Image
I don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“There are always struggles in writing. Anyone who denies this is either lying to themselves or you. Or they’re not faithful to… — Phoenix Elvis Nicholson Copy Share Image
“Having an available budget that spent regularly to buy new books affects positively on the knowledge balance of your family” — Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi Copy Share Image
The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
I think most writers, in a sense, have this desire to disappear, to be absolutely anonymous, to be removed in some way:… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I don't write anything that I haven't lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image