When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing and we have… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“When you can’t run and deliver like you used to, make sure your letters still bleed with imagery under the stampede of… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
I always say it's a shame picture books get such a bad rep. Illustrations are tough to sell older kids on! — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
Young adults are honest readers. They won't stay with a book unless they have a reason, so it has to move along. — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
“But the Library still held everything he’d ever wanted, too. All the knowledge in the world, right at his fingertips” — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
Usually when I'm writing, I kind of know what it is before I start writing and I write stream of consciousness style. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The charm of your writing,” Evelyn Waugh once wrote to Mitford, “depends on your refusal to recognize a distinction between girlish chatter… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
'Pastoralia' by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It's one of the weirdest books I've ever read. If Monty Python and Thomas… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
So okay - there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean/ they… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I love writing. I'm not particularly comfortable in the actual world - I'm much more comfortable on the page. So if I… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
The writer marks the changes he wants to make, while a proofreader also goes through the galley, checking it page-by-page against the… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
The process of writing can be a powerful tool for self-discovery. Writing demands self-knowledge; it forces the writer to become a student… — Georg Buhler Copy Share Image
“Nina had been told regularly since she was a child that she needed more fresh air, at which she would take her… — Jenny Colgan Copy Share Image
“Little did she know that this was going to be not just any book, but the book that changed her life. In… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the one normal writer left on earth and it is this that adds to his… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“Oh, it doesn't get me. I'm pretty well cloistered, and I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or… — John Updike Copy Share Image
You already know when I'm writing, so don't be surprised if it's short and dry, because I'm too hungry to write anything… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed. — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
Writing is hard. It takes commitment and determination and a good part talent. It's not an afterthought, an addendum - it's a… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library.… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
Writing is like being in a dream state or under self-directed hypnosis. It induces a state of recall that - while not… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“Writing can be a splendid headache. Fun when words spill forth like a raging river and a catastrophic, hair-pulling experience when they… — Adam Santo Copy Share Image
Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising. — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
I tend to only write productively for one to two hours per day, so there is plenty of time left over for… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
“I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was 5 years old. I would dictate stories to my mother, and she would copy them in… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Books had been her solace when she was sad, her friends when she was lonely. They had mended her heart when it… — Jenny Colgan Copy Share Image
Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
“Never get too attached to the first draft of anything – this includes writing, art, homes, love. You will revise and revise… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Linda Brewer's example is inspiring, colorful and potentially very funny. Her journey also exists firmly in the Heartland tradition of American success… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
“A lot of people assume you can think better with a slow diet of books, but that will not be the case… — Tony Reinke Copy Share Image
