A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you -- and if you don't, nobody can help you. — Alma Alexander 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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“Write down important formulas, facts, definitions, and/or keywords in the margin first so you won't worry about” — Jawanza Kunjufu Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in writers who are overcome with certainty, with single-mindedness, or with a sense of how consistent and morally upstanding… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The moment in which the narrator, reaching for his boots, becomes vividly and lastingly aware of the finality of his grandmother's death… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“I felt lost without the Delete key, the scrollbar, the cut and paste functions, the Undo command. I had to do all… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“Do you write every day?' 'Oh, no. Oh, I sort of try. I don't work very hard, really. Really I'm on vacation.… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
“The novelist Umberto Eco famously kept what the writer Nassim Taleb called an “anti-library,” a vast collection of books he had not… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
