“For anyone who wants to write, and hopes some day to publish what he or she has written, it is far more… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I've been journaling longer than I've been a musician, longer than I've been an artist, longer than I've been a writer in… — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
It's no good looking to writers for definitions of what constitutes proper writing, because you will drive yourself crazy, and you won't… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing - I suppose that's what a vocation means - at times a torment,… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
Like many American readers, I was first introduced to Magda Szabo's work when New York Review Books reissued the Hungarian master's profound… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Pacing is not the sort of thing you can plan out beforehand, but you're always aware of it as you write, because… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
“You want to know a secret?” I asked. “Sure,” she said halfheartedly. “I love to sniff the insides of books,” I said… — Jack Gantos Copy Share Image
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“At first, writing actually felt the more arduous of the two activities. But in order to reach cultural-center nirvana, I forced myself… — Yu Hua Copy Share Image
Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Pomegranate Soup is glorious, daring and delightful. I adored the Iranian sisters, Marjan, Bahar and Layla, who are looking to build a… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another… — Ha Jin Copy Share Image
I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
That's also part of having great editors -- they can sort of be honest with you and say, "I see where you're… — Victoria Laurie Copy Share Image
The messiness [in my books] is nothing like an Atwood novel. For me, the deeper subjects are secrets versus intimacy, and how… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing. — Heather Armstrong Copy Share Image
If reading makes you smart then how come when you read a book they have to put the title of the book… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
If you want to do this - either write for TV, or write books - the first thing you have to do… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
As a writer, I know that - you write a first draft and then put it in a drawer. The longer I… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything? — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I feel like part of getting better at writing is knowing where to find that inspiration. Right after something happens to me,… — Troye Sivan Copy Share Image
Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life,… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“ When you are young and strong...you can stay alive on your hatred"…but realized later "They can take everything from me except… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“A writer lives, at least, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the… — William Sansom Copy Share Image
Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant. — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
Every author has different ways of writing and what works for one author does not necessarily work for another. — Robert Munsch Copy Share Image
My aspiration was to write a book that you could still read in 10 years. That's hard. Then you start doubting every… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
I started a funny book from the 1930s called The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse is a comic… — William Gurstelle Copy Share Image
Comics is still my first love. But I always did other kinds of writing, too, so I think of myself as a… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“For many writers the goal is a thousand words a day. For me, just give me one thought, and the words will… — Garry Fitchett Copy Share Image
The whole process of getting a book published is just part of the process. The last of the process that I enjo — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
There isn't a thought or feeling that doesn't alter or deepen when written. We are a writing animal. That is why all… — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back. — Cecil B. DeMille Copy Share Image
I do try to plot about a chapter ahead once I get going. I have a list of upcoming scenes with little… — Pamela Clare Copy Share Image
![“The messiness [in my books] is nothing like an Atwood novel. For me, the deeper subjects are secrets versus intimacy, and how both beget safety but also threaten it. And there is a lot for me about loss, too.” quote by Edan Lepucki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/580/edan-lepucki-20626_begets_the-messiness-in-my-books-is-nothing-lik_132412.jpg)
