Read. It makes you more intelligent. It’s that simple. We all see the universe through the tiny keyhole of our own eyes,… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
“He simply could not write a further word. Writer’s block, he thought. It happens to the most brilliant of writers.” — Sharon Maas Copy Share Image
Writing mirrors the interior self. You know, any book is like the perfect blueprint of the psyche of the author. — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Everybody talks about being a writer, angel. If every novel conceived on a bar stool made it into print, there wood not… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I'm a workmanlike writer. I show up every day and treat it like a job. The old rule that writing is like… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“I've never written a book, except my first, without at some point considering that I might die before it was completed. This… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“The only course to pursue to make life bearable on such a day, at least for women (I speak not of men,… — Rhoda Broughton Copy Share Image
If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes and… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
The best test to know whether an entity is real or fictional is the test of suffering. A nation cannot suffer, feel… — Esther Rantzen Copy Share Image
I just try to put the thing out and hope somebody will read it. Someone says: 'Whom do you write for?' I… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
A journal takes the place of a confidant, that is, of friend or wife; it becomes a substitute for production, a substitute… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You must become aware of the richness in you and come to believe in it and know it is there, so that… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I'm really sort of cautious about being too didactic. To me there are writers that can do that, but I think they… — Adam Braver Copy Share Image
If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal… — Adele Copy Share Image
Why writers write I do not know. As well ask why a hen lays an egg or why a cow stands patiently… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I've done well because I'm lucky and I'm willing to be collaborative with the one thing you don't want to be collaborative… — James Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
I always tell people I write songs, but I'm a writer. It's a difference. I can write songs to music, but I… — Ester Dean Copy Share Image
I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
General writing about science, even if we do it badly, helps us to see our work in perspective and broadens our vision. — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create. — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
I used to write books and plays in my mind, but I doubt that any of them would have been above the… — John McCain Copy Share Image
And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London. — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
I love being a writer. I am very lucky my life's ambition turned out to be just as much fun as I… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I cannot and don't really want to control my mind, soul, or heart when I write and must recognize that I don't… — Lidija Dimkovska Copy Share Image
“Then I thought of reading—the nice and subtle happiness of reading. This was enough, this joy not dulled by Age, this polite… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Mary Jo Putney is a gifted writer with an intuitive understanding of what makes romances work. I loved Silk and Shadows, couldn't… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I still find it difficult to cope with the solitude of writing. I often crave the feedback of working with a team. — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
I was reading at a third-grade level until the age of 30 before I made the decision that I was going to… — Diamond Dallas Page Copy Share Image
A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I've written some short stories about my personal experience, but it's not something you can use everywhere. Every novel, every work of… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
