I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible. — Samuel Barber Copy Share Image
Who are those ever multiplying authors that with unparalleled fecundity are overstocking the world with their quick succeeding progeny? They are novel-writers. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Do you know what writing a book is? It's sitting alone in a room for weeks without making contact with another human.… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“When a book ends, it no longer belongs to you. It belongs to the world. It's a gift from you to the… — Jennifer Probst Copy Share Image
Producing words isn't a problem for me. And I usually write two books at a time. When one horse gets winded, you… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
I love to read and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have.… — Mary Mouser Copy Share Image
“I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of… — John Bright Copy Share Image
Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
If you have to find devices to coax yourself to stay focused on writing, perhaps you should not be writing what you're… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“In Murakami's short story 'The Kidney-Shaped Stone That Moves Every Day,' the main character is a writer. In describing the act of… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“ 'Till America has learned to love literature not as an amusement, not as a mere doggerel to memorize in a college… — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
A fantastic, gleeful, chrome-plated-slick debut of a novel. In Jonathan Chase, Markham has created the perfect cliche-shattering super spy while honoring the… — Greg Rucka Copy Share Image
Whenever I start a new book, I think, 'This is the most interesting subject of all time. It's sad, I'll never enjoy… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“My stories may 'lack' the overall sparkly finish, but I enjoy writing them and publishing them. Not every book is perfect not… — laurie bowler Copy Share Image
“A picture is worth a thousand words, but the way I paint I'm going to need to contact an editor. Even if… — James Lee Schmidt Copy Share Image
I looked back at some high school journals and discovered that I definitely wanted to be a writer, but not necessarily comedy. — Allison Silverman Copy Share Image
“It's when people begin to fancy that they actually know something about literature that they cease to be literarily interesting, or even… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation… — Fukuzawa Yukichi Copy Share Image
Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
It's not that I don't enjoy other people, but what I find with writers is this back and forth. And also, there's… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“but God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends.” — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
In fiction, you are not limited by real facts. You can manipulate reality; you can invent without being disloyal to the essence… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
'Shantaram' is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“Mistake is a single page in a part of Life … but Relation is a book of dictionary ----- So don't lose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Much of the time I'm an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude… — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
Everyone in the book's ecology, starting with the author and including the publisher, the distributor, the booksellers, the libraries, and ending up… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture and the blinders of one's narrow self. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
I write when I have something to say and not when I don't. My time is better spent if I know I… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Much of my writing is energized by unresolved memories - something like ghosts in the psychological sense. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
You can then further enhance the process of writing by forming the clear intention that your Higher Self will influence your writing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a passionate believer in revision, and a lot of my writing gets done during revision process. It isn't just tweaking: I… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
I am generally wary of the demand for 'likeability' in fiction, which I think is a bastardisation of the demand of identification… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
“If you're not scared when you are writing you're not working hard enough. You'll be afraid but you have to keep going.” — M. Molly Backes Copy Share Image
“If you become a writer you'll be trying to describe the ?Thing all your life: and lucky if, out of dozens of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm not patient - and I'm getting more impatient as I get older - but I am disciplined about writing, and I… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
