If you can write each day, do it, and meet a quota. Minimum 350 words a day. A baboon can do 350… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
No complaining about how hard it is to write, we are all so, so lucky to write, to sit down, inside, and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I'm a writer, first and foremost, and I sort of take my cues from the songwriters of the '70s, who are talking… — Tift Merritt Copy Share Image
“My book is a light read. Seriously, it probably weighs 3.33 ounces. That’s pretty impressive, considering it’s an ebook.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
Those who will not take the trouble to think for themselves, have always somebody that thinks for them; and the difficulty in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I valued that half-dream state of being lost in a book so much that I limited the number of pages I let… — Allison Hoover Bartlett Copy Share Image
With non-fiction, there is the struggle to be accurate. With fiction, it is a bit different: the desire to let imagination take… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
What's so exciting and terrifying about the writing process is that it really is an act of exploration and discovery. With all… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
“Writing should be a little bit grainy, it should be a little bit raw. It should be every single thing flowing inside… — Gregory Sherl Copy Share Image
“...it was my father who had taught me to love books for themselves, the smell of the vellum and paper, the rare… — Regina O'Melveny Copy Share Image
Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
There's a difference between talent and skill. You might have writing talent, but skill is learned. You have to practice. I remain… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
Books, books, books in all their aspects, in form and spirit, their physical selves and what reading releases from their hieroglyphic pages,… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
The most despised sector of Hollywood are the writers. A good writer is quickly promoted to a 'concept man' - and then… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Don't accept what's out there because that is all that's out there. Look for the new and unusual. Seek out what you… — Rob Thurman Copy Share Image
A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only… — Brian Lumley Copy Share Image
Anything by D. H. Lawrence or Jean Genet - 'Zen Mind,' 'Beginner's Mind' is my daily go to for non-fiction. — Brian J. Smith Copy Share Image
“You must always find a partner who can do a few mundane chores around the house so that you can relax in… — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
“Reading means never being bored and never being lonely. My books are my friends; they always provide me with a place to… — Satinder Bhatti Copy Share Image
I don’t write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn’t set out to do that.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Writing is an outlet, but it’s not an outlet of escape. People keep a journal when they want to escape. I write… — Amelia Gray Copy Share Image
There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in… — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Instead of going home, I drove to the library. To hell with human beings. I’d always felt safer with stories than with… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I want to be a better writer. I want to learn and grow, to know how to tell stories in a different… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is a lot like directing a movie because you are creating a world and a tone, you are creating… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I'm strictly a one-project-at-a-time kind of guy. If I came up with a compelling idea for a different book while working on… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I want my students to love to read. Reading is not a subject. Reading is a foundation of life, an activity that… — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“I’ve always thought that books have some kind of healing power and that they can, if nothing else, provide a distraction.” — Katarina Bivald Copy Share Image
The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
It's the hardest thing in the world to dedicate to writing, but if you do that even once a week, after six… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
