You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm very much a word-centric writer, and that comes from the literature and the reading that I did as kid and also… — Grace Potter Copy Share Image
Once the initial excitement wears off and it's time to sit down to write, the authors are usually still very eager, but… — Deborah Reber Copy Share Image
It was a pleasure to work with Destiny's Child in the beginning of their career. Working in the studio with Beyonce was… — Chris Stokes Copy Share Image
Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations. — John Sandford Copy Share Image
If you're a particular kind of kid who hasn't found your tribe, which most of us don't until later, that's what books… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“The novelist might be greater possible help to us if they painted life as it is, and human feelings in their true… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
I'm afraid that the act of writing is so scary and anxiety-filled that I never laugh at all. In fact, when people… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
There are people that you don't like because you're jealous of them until you meet them. And you haven't read their book… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“Never will I make that extra effort to live according to reality which alone makes good writing possible: hence the manic-depressiveness of… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Everything you need for your better future and success has already been written.And guess What? It's all available.All you have to do… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
“…one of those long, romantic novels, six hundred and fifty pages of small print, translated from French or German or Hungarian or… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
I always plan the whole story in some detail, long before I start writing the actual thing. But even doing that, I… — Raymond Buckland Copy Share Image
“A writer must find his own grain, way, bent. ...He aspires to create new and original works. His way is alone. If… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I used to worry I was entirely uninteresting, but the truth is I think if my life was more exciting I'd never… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The hardest period for a writer is the period in-between writing. That's when you can go crazy if you don't allow the… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sights I haven't seen, make… — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
My books flow. People say they pick them up and they can't put them down. It's because when I'm writing them I… — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
“I have found a higher calling; inspirational-writing! I can’t imagine myself doing any other work, when I ought to write and transmit,… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Writing keeps the mind sharp and gives me the opportunity to exercise my imagination to engage the reader,” — Ruth Ford Elward Copy Share Image
I think one of the big things that's come out of ghostwriting for me is real compassion for the complexity of fame. — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write. But at times I have told myself that I don't necessarily have… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I don't know what I'm going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path,… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“Spending so much time alone had turned Chloe's imagination into a deep dark forest. It was a magical place to escape to,… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
“The sound of someone passing by the library entrance made the two of them scatter away, like cockroaches from the light.” — A.Z. Green Copy Share Image
If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan, we… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Studios, to cut through the clutter, want recognisable titles. But that does not excuse you, as a writer, from having an original… — Roberto Orci Copy Share Image
...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like… — Sarah Caudwell Copy Share Image
Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural.… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
Life is a novel.. Every day is a new page.. If one page is sad Next will be happy .. So dont… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is. — James Purdy Copy Share Image
He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more… — J. A. Jance Copy Share Image
