When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry. — William Collins Copy Share Image
I love storytelling so for me to get behind a story and get in there early in its infancy and kind of… — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
Most writers have very little that's important or valuable to offer; most of them are just repeating each other. — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“More and more I lived in books, they were my comfort, refuge, addiction, compensation for the humiliations that attended contact with the… — Lorna Sage Copy Share Image
I rewrite everything, almost idiotically. I rewrite and work and work, and rewrite and rewrite some more. — Laura Z. Hobson Copy Share Image
One ought not to write for money, but I consider it a first duty after one has written to exact the highest… — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
It's really difficult to know what is the best way forward when you're not getting a lot of support - and probably… — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother read me Beatrix… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“I must write…I like to write. Sometimes I’m afraid that I like it too much because when I get into work I… — Charles Shields Copy Share Image
“I kept my door more securely locked than ever and passed the time with foreign novels. Since Balzac was Luo's favourite I… — Dai Sijie Copy Share Image
When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go 'I need to… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
“My dear," replied her husband, "I have two small favours to request. First, that you will allow me the free use of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The… — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
I was never a fan of anything, and yet some people are fans of my books. That's a bit odd. But I… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“Always be reading something, he said. Even when we’re not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
The way I was educated, maybe from just inhaling something in the air back then, I grew up believing that E. B.… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper -… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“I am an ambitious writer – I don’t see the point of being anything, no, not anything at all, if you have… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The first sign that you've evolved as a writer is when MS WORD fails to make you feel guilty by putting a… — Gaurav Sharma Copy Share Image
“Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“The e-reader certainly sorts out the sheep from the goats, and divides those who need to read from those who like to… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
“But mama it’s hard to read books these days. The world has gone digital. Print books are almost burden-some. The volume, of… — S. A. David Copy Share Image
“An editor is someone who is paid to tell a writer what she thinks about how he wrote what he thinks about.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of… — Wale Copy Share Image
I'm very selective about what I write about, and whom I write about, and how much I write about somebody. — Cathy Horyn Copy Share Image
When you walk to the end of a fiction, its procedure is 1) intuitive; and 2) emotional. Its intelligence is emotional, I think. — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
“I began writing late in life but I've learned that the more life you absorb, the more you have to say and… — Andrea Zug Copy Share Image
“But it is the subjects, the conversations, the facts we shy away from, which claim us in the form of writer's block,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I think the hardest part of writing anything is getting exposition out easily, without hitting people over the head with it. — Jillian Bell Copy Share Image
You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“Writing is a lonely pursuit. The only thing working is imagination and hands. The only difference between writing and masturbation is one… — Mark Bell Copy Share Image
“We writers can use our own longing - and frequently do - without ever having to understand or analyze it. That is… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
