“All of our lives are a living, breathing story, and each heartbeat means a new page has been turned; chapters don't close,… — Jeff Dixon - Storming the Kingdom Copy Share Image
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If I really knew how to do good storytelling, I would be a writer. Mystery is not a huge part of it.… — Scott Cohen Copy Share Image
“I write for myself first and foremost, but I hope that others will enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing… — Shannon DuBey Copy Share Image
This book was written in those long hours I spent waiting for my wife to get dressed to go out. And if… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
So, there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“As someone who has to teach for a living, I shouldn't be saying this, but the planet can do quite well without… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
No male writer is likely to be asked to sit on a panel addressing itself to the special problems of a male… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
No common-place is ever effectually got rid of, except by essentially emptying one's self of it into a book; for oncetrapped in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel like some sort of fiction-writing hobo, jumping trains and always hoping I'll find a good place to start a fire… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
The writer has two kinds of faith: actual writing and sitting openly. Have faith in your personal effort or sweat. And faith… — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
Writing is a completely private act. It's in a way like play but very serious play, and sometimes I can escape into… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are some who demand of… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
“This is important to writing. . . that is, it is important to my own writing. This. . . is landscape! Mine.… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
“It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one’s adult enjoyment of what are called ‘children’s books’. I think… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices… The various qualities of my readings seem to permeate my every muscle,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
It is a happy day when I am asked to publicly recommend a book. It is also a dilemma. When I consider… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind. — Roy Blount, Jr 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
“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
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
Mollie Hunter was both a great friend and a very fine writer for children. She was fascinated by Scotland's history and its… — Joan Lingard Copy Share Image
“Reading is a respite from the restlessness of technology, but it's not only that. It's how I reset and recharge. It's how… — Will Schwalbe 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
