If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
As a writer, you want to go somewhere else sometimes. You want to vary the terrain that you're exploring. — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I guess I feel it's funny to be looked to for advice on writing when I am still taking in so much… — Becky Albertalli Copy Share Image
I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Writers perform an extremely important role: they make others dream, those who are unable to dream for themselves. And everyone needs to… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
It's nice to live in a country that has its priorities straight: the library's open three hours a week, and the House… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
“The Arcade, and now Peabody's, combined to tell me that there was life in objects, in books. It was all about having… — Sheridan Hay Copy Share Image
“Books, by their very nature and variety, help us grow in empathy for others, in tolerance and awareness. But they should increase… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
I'm an incredibly emotional person, but I always feel bad about that. The work is therapy... I need to emote wildly while… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
“Treat writing as a job. Be disciplined. Lots of writers get a bit OCD-ish about this. Graham Greene famously wrote 500 words… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
I had wanted to write 'The Possessed' as fiction, but everyone told me that no one would read a novel about graduate… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I had this bad habit of not writing out a first draft and going back. For me it was the first sentence,… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
“When a writer puts words on paper, it is an intimate act. The reader hears your words in his voice and he… — N.M. Kelby Copy Share Image
“I always think of books being tougher in a sense, in that you’ve got to sit down and you’ve got to do… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I've chosen television because of the quality of material that I'm offered, not being a writer, so I've turned a lot of… — David Nutter Copy Share Image
I have a background writing screenplays and teleplays. I've tried to write prose and fiction but never really completed anything I thought… — Michael Imperioli Copy Share Image
Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Making sure that the geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
“She had discovered with surprise and pleasure that as she turned each page, the book was written, as if for the first… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits? — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Keep writing, dreaming and creating. There are no boundaries to your imagination. Writers are gifts to the world.” — C. Toni Graham Copy Share Image
I don't have as tight a time limit anymore but I still write in long marathon sessions and then I won't write… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
I won't read a book that starts with a description of the weather. I don't read books over 300 pages, though I'll… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
People have asked me why I made the first chapter of my first novel so long, and in an invented English. The… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“By all means," said Richard. "Let's talk about something other than books. Something safer. Like politics or religion.” — Charlie Hill Copy Share Image
Russell Brand has announced that he plans to write a series of children's books. First up: 'Horton Hears a Heroin Dealer.' — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
I'm comfortable having a specific audience to write to. I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as… — Dave Sim Copy Share Image
I always knew I'd be leaving government someday. I just didn't know when. There was something about knowing that it was temporary… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
That's what I love about writing is you don't need anyone's permission to do it. You can just get up in the… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's… — Angel Olsen Copy Share Image
I would define a book as a work of magic whence escape, all kinds of images to trouble the souls and change… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I think most writers have to have a practice of writing. For me it is very early in the morning. I try… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
