Paradoxically, the most constructive thing women can do is to write, for in the act of writing we deny our muteness and… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I write what I write and I honestly don't care if it gets on or not. I'm writing to see if I… — Larry Gelbart Copy Share Image
When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There's a facility in that kind of writing. — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded,… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
“It's heartbreaking when you love a book that fails. And it always seems to happen to the nicest authors.” — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
A writer has to write something that they're - sit down with or are interested in every day of their life. — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
“I have so little control over the act of writing that it's all I can do to remain conscious. Actual formal considerations… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“Stories are truth. Through writing, you can say so much more than in speaking. Writing is not fantasizing, writing is telling the… — Theprinceoftworealities Copy Share Image
When you write about people three dimensionally, it inspires a sense of empathy. That would be something that I want people to… — Sarah Gerard Copy Share Image
“If my life were a book, I would have masking tape holding my hinges together. My pages would be loose, my edges… — Kate Carlisle Copy Share Image
“I think that writing should be honest and simple, and it should say something about what it means to be a person.… — M.V. Carey Copy Share Image
Sometimes I felt as a writer I was purging, and it almost hurt to purge to that level. Now it doesn't feel… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
People say writing is really hard. That's very unfair to those who are doing real jobs. People who work in the fields… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“Rejection is a writer's best friend. If you are not failing regularly, you are living so far below your potential that you're… — Gregg Levoy Copy Share Image
Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
The vital accessories to my work are my reference books, such as the complete Shakespeare and a prayer book, and a large… — Beryl Bainbridge Copy Share Image
A School Library is Like the Bat Cave: it's a safe fortress in a chaotic world, a source of knowledge and the… — Tom Angleberger Copy Share Image
“I devoured the books because they were the rays of light peeking out from the doorframe, and perhaps past that door there… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
You can't really give away anything in your book ... should be exciting, it's my life, and I'm a cool and exciting guy. — Usain Bolt Copy Share Image
“There are certain books in the history of the world that should never have been written. This book makes all those look… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
Well — when I write my book, and tell the tale Of my adventures — all these little stars That shake out… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
“Stephen King: If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered” — Afiena Kamminga Copy Share Image
I remember as a child I just would copy everyone else's handwriting, and now I have sort of a version of my… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious,… — Amelie Nothomb Copy Share Image
For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
In 2008, when I wrote Book 1 and Book 2, the head of the publishing house suggested twelve books - one each… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
Keeping a habit, in the smallest way, protects and strengthens it. I write every day, even if it's just a sentence, to… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. — John Locke Copy Share Image
The writing of 'The Ladykillers' was fun. But once it goes out of your hands it's not fun, 'especially for someone who… — Graham Linehan Copy Share Image
“Amazon isn’t happening to the book business,” he likes to say to authors and journalists. “The future is happening to the book… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the… — Egerton Brydges Copy Share Image
“I stood in the library admiring the huge book collection. There was something inherently calming about being surrounded by books, even their… — Saffron Mello Castro Copy Share Image
My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Note that the #1 Top Reviewer at Amazon (4550 book reviews) is Harriet Klausner, formerly an acquisitions librarian in Pennsylvania. This just… — Peter Morville Copy Share Image
