“Literature is communication. Communication requires loyalty. A rigorous morality results from complicity in the knowledge of Evil, which is the basis of… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
When you're writing there's a deep, deep level of concentration way below your normal self. This strange voice, these strange sentences come… — John Banville Copy Share Image
It's madness to hand in a script to a director, leave them alone, and for the director not to want the writer… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
I bought these pink sticker things... and I would write things on them, and I wrote, 'I will write an international smash,'… — Bebe Rexha Copy Share Image
“Books can inspire you to love yourself more, but by listening to, writing out, or verbally expressing your feelings you are actually… — John Gray Copy Share Image
“stock into a word-of-mouth bestseller. And for the next three years they bought For Dummies books, millions of them.” — John Wiley and Sons Copy Share Image
Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
But a huge part of being a writer is discovering your own intellectual and aesthetic autonomy, and how you best get the… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
“I believe you can consider yourself a successful prose writer when the number of words you put on a page each day… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“The most difficult thing about writing, I'm discovering, is not the act of constructing the sentences themselves. It's deciding what to put… — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
“The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Don't say it is too hard or you can't find the words and please don't tell me there isn't enough time in… — CK Webb Copy Share Image
Sinclair Lewis was asked one time to give a talk to class of students about writing. When he got there he asked… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think so much emphasis these days is placed upon achievement and skill and assessment that the joy has gone out of… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I really don't write much anymore, and I'm not uncomfortable with that. I've tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
“The library was quiet. It was busy but it was quiet and I thought it must be like this in a monastery… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
It is in the hard, hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
I don't want my writing to be so unique that when you apply it to different genres, it seems like the previous… — Shawn Ryan Copy Share Image
Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter. — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
“Books took away the pain and disappointment, they always did. Books closed bad doors and opened good ones.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
Books are my very favorite gift to give. If you give a book to someone and they really respond to it, you… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals. — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Actually, judging by Pinterest alone, I’m pretty sure a lot of people would look forward to hanging out in such a beautiful… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going… — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
As for Tenacious D, of course it could work as a full length movie; all it requires is a great writer and… — David Cross Copy Share Image
Books light the fire-whether it's a book that's already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in. — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“Life's trials will test you, and shape you, but don’t let them change who you are.” ~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive” — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience. — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
I've come to find that I am definitely not cut out for the isolated writer thing, locking myself away and writing and… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
It's like when you get sick of your own cooking: I occasionally wish I could write something that didn't come out sounding… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
You can catch a scent in the wind - an idea, or a concept - and follow it. You can delve into… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
“Giving your friends the evil eye, as you attempt to convince them that they took you away from your book, and it… — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books. — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
I really just choose stories that are compelling, have interesting trends and characters, and hopefully say something larger about society. — David Grann Copy Share Image
It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story. — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
