When I was younger, the main struggle was to be a 'good writer.' Now I more or less take my writing abilities… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“T. S. Eliot taught us you can write about your nervous breakdown, but call it 'The Wasteland' and make it big and… — Mary Jo Bang Copy Share Image
I write in bed, too. I find it very comforting. I want to sort of, like, crawl in a fetal position if… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
You can’t know a book until you come to the end of it, and then all the rest must be modified to… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
It's so easy to get caught up in your own self-doubt when you're writing. It can be so easy to tell yourself,… — Michael Cera Copy Share Image
You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. That means trying to understand, take in, connect with, what… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I write at a standing desk, which has helped me be much more productive and solved some back problems, but mostly all… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
For the kind of places I've written for and the kind of writing that I've done, the general way to think about… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I'm sure I have a story, I call my collaborators and we begin to discuss it. And we conduct studies of… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
When I started out, I didn't have any writing routine, I had a job. Writing was a hobby I indulged in over… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Many years ago, when I was just about as complete a failure as one can become, I began to spend a good… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life. — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“My bookshelf was my favorite part of my room. It had a calming presence. Maybe there was something to be said about… — Katie Kacvinsky Copy Share Image
I'm not too concerned what happens to my books after I'm dead. But I am very concerned by what's going on with… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books.” — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Sentence making is an act of questing into unexplored regions, probing the anarchy of daylight, and exploring the troubling confusion and turmoil… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Anyone can write. Some people can write a bit better than others; they're called authors. Then there are some who can write… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
If she were a writer she would collect her pencils and notebooks and favourite cat and write in bed. Strangers and lovers… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I'm a writer and director. And the movie I've seen a million times is 'Coming Home,' directed by Hal Ashby and starring… — Jonathan Levine Copy Share Image
“Reading is one way I cope. I go somewhere else for a while and submerge myself in the character's problems instead of… — Stephanie Lawton Copy Share Image
Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff...forms a base on which to build something better. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I've always been a bookworm. As I mentioned, I moved around a lot, and one of the problems with being the new… — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
As soon as I finish meditating, I get a beautiful feeling of expanded consciousness. When I'm in this headspace I can make… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The average career span for a TV writer is 11 years. The only other thing I could find that had the same… — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
“It’s always encouraging to be told that it is intellectually acceptable to read the sorts of things that you like to read… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“...In the end I value literacy more highly than health; if our two countries were full of fat readers, rather than millions… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing. — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“Don’t start right off writing the ‘Great American Novel’, that's too much pressure and you'll get disappointed; start with porn, it’s fun… — scavola Copy Share Image
I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
“...I believe it important to emphasize how strongly I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks… — Don Mattingly Copy Share Image
Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control of their sentences-to make their words do what they want… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
“My advice is to write in the nude. Unless you do your writing in a public restroom, and in that case, I’d… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
