In a crazy way, writing is a lot like any kind of very complex game - like chess, where you have the… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
If I have to write on an airplane or get up early to write or write late, you just gotta sit down.… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
For me, a novel relying too heavily on a single idea might be a dry, deadly thing unless it possesses an animating… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“On writing... "It’s a walk into the darkest corners of my imagination where my nightmares fester until something living and breathing escapes… — J.E. Taylor Copy Share Image
“It has all the right ingredients: rich contents, friendly, personal language, subtle humor, the right references, and a plethora of pointers to… — Steven S. Skiena Copy Share Image
Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for… — Jesse James Garrett Copy Share Image
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Writing can be a tough gig. Whenever you do something in which you put yourself out there - if that becomes the… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
“Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Getting a beginner publishing deal really helped me gain the skills. I just kept writing and writing. You just take everything out… — Jon Pardi Copy Share Image
“Writing is a luxury or, with luck, a rainbow of colors. It is my lifesaver when the water of the river or… — Silvina Ocampo Copy Share Image
Sydney had been horrified to discover my home library consisted of a bartending dictionary and an old copy of Esquire, and at… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Because I have no consistent schedule as an actor, it was difficult to develop one as a writer. Ideally, I'd like to… — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
I spent the first few years of my life in a smallish community in Queens. Back in those early days, kids could… — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was accessible… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
There are so many different ways, most of them helpful and legal, to get yourself into a state of mind where writing… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
“If stone-sober people can fuck like they're out of their minds -- can actually be out of their minds while caught in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward,… — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
“My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“She dreamed of a world where books did not rot or give way to green blot, where words and ideas were not… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“The extraordinary thing about inventing a persona is that one is loathe to give it up, especially if the fiction sits comfortably.” — Gita Mehta Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fiction does not invent out of a vacuum, but it invents; and what it invents is, first, the fabric and cadence of… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Dinginess is death to a writer. Filth, discomfort, hunger, cold, trauma and drama, don't matter a bit.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
A secretary is not a thing Wound by key, pulled by string. Her pad is to write in, And not spend the… — Frank Loesser Copy Share Image
If I could have married my wife and been a sports writer for the past 30 years, I wouldn't be sitting here… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I love 'The Guardian' series. Bianca St. Ives is one of my favorite heroines ever, and the combination of action, suspense, and… — Karen Robards Copy Share Image
“Contemporary literature can be classified under three headings: the neurotic, the erotic and the tommy-rotic.” — W. Giese Copy Share Image
I do a nice sloppy first draft like everybody else. And then just work at it and work at it and groom… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Knots and Crosses,' the first of the Rebus books, not even realising that I was writing crime fiction. — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
That's typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside. — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
The element of surprise is the most important thing and what keeps me interested in writing. I can feel it if I've… — Phoebe Waller-Bridge Copy Share Image
