There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the… — Martin Lewis Perl Copy Share Image
Do not address your readers as though they were gathered together in a stadium. When people read your copy, they are alone.… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going. — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
“A writer should remember that about his muse there is a great deal of the Siren. He should view his mental offspring… — F.L. Lucas Copy Share Image
Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You should write, write, write every day, and learn to edit and pare it right back so you're proud of every sentence,… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification, — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
If I write a book, it has to be so awesome. It has to be next level, to prove mysel. Just like… — Martellus Bennett Copy Share Image
Over the next four days, I want you to write about your deepest emotions and thoughts about the most upsetting experience in… — James W. Pennebaker Copy Share Image
“My first novel was only a try-out,’ said David carelessly. The sort of thing every undergraduate has to write, but now I… — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
“I can't think of anything that anyone has ever accomplished without having some sort of self-discipline. Without knowing how to work for… — Cameron Diaz Copy Share Image
The writings are often written in a kind of exhaustion or delirium, I try very hard not to censor myself, to be… — Jill Magid Copy Share Image
“To me, a recently read novel was like a miniature planet: only a few hours earlier I had been breathing its air… — Julie Schumacher Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I cannot occupy myself with "characters," or at any rate central ones, who lack panache, in one or another… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Over the years, my experience, my tastes, my prejudices have changed: as the days go by, my memory keeps reshelving, cataloguing, discarding… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
My introduction to the Brady book was an attempt to nail the exact same idea since Brady addressed the point. And since… — Peter Sotos Copy Share Image
“Johanna was looking at her expectantly, and suddenly Ravna realized that the girl thought librarians must be experts at everything.” — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I'm not subject to what… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I write all the time, even if it means recording in the hotel room. I write on the plane, anywhere, anytime I'm… — Flo Rida Copy Share Image
“Reading great literature, it has long been averred, enlarges and improves us as human beings,” wrote Paul. “Brain science shows this claim… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
I have done, this year, what I said I would: overcome my fear of facing a blank page day after day, acknowledging… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
You have to know human behaviour … And the quality of your writing is absolutely capped at your understanding of human behaviour.… — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry I don't have brilliant reasons for beginning a novel. As you go along, you make up reasons to do what… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point,… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
“That made sense of gabby meetings: salient points isolated from the gush of acoustic froth. This paper belonged on a clipboard, not… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
The actual materials are important... A book at the nightstand is important-a light you can get at-or a flashlight as Kerouac had… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself. — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“It’s important to put aside your internal editor and just get words down on the page when working on a first draft.” — S.J. Scott Copy Share Image
“How do those people who don't read books plug the gaps in their day? The journeys, the break-times, the evenings when the… — Robert Craig Copy Share Image
Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I am firmly convinced that the ideal combination leading to a happy life is to have the time to both fish and… — Brian Murphy Copy Share Image
The fierce and partial writers of the times, ascribing all virtue to themselves, and imputing all guilt to their adversaries, have painted… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
You can't write something actively trying to please everyone - you're going to end up with watery soup that way. You just… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
This country's crazy in terms of fame and what people think it means. They expect a writer to be something between a… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
