I want to be a better writer. I want to learn and grow, to know how to tell stories in a different… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“Instead of going home, I drove to the library. To hell with human beings. I’d always felt safer with stories than with… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“I’ve always thought that books have some kind of healing power and that they can, if nothing else, provide a distraction.” — Katarina Bivald Copy Share Image
It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
I want my students to love to read. Reading is not a subject. Reading is a foundation of life, an activity that… — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
I'm strictly a one-project-at-a-time kind of guy. If I came up with a compelling idea for a different book while working on… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“It turned out that when my younger self thought of taking wing, she wanted only to let her spirit soar. Books are… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. It doesn't matter… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
Why do I write? I write because I have to, because it is all I know, because it is my truth, because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When I have a chapter finished, I jot down who the viewpoint characters are, what they are wearing, what happened in the… — Dean Wesley Smith Copy Share Image
“I had learned that some people feel that books are "intrusive," in the sense that books put things in their heads that… — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
One can feel the immense joy of Amy Hill Hearth's engagement in her first novel. It radiates through every scene and through… — Philip K. Jason Copy Share Image
“I think most writers … write about episodes meaningful to them in terms of their own imaginations. Now that would include a… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Read the right books and we can be as wild and worry-free as we've ever wanted to be. No law can stop… — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
“Each of us will make his own shelf of books. The book for me is the book that delights, attracts, soothes, or… — Maurice Francis Egan Copy Share Image
“I write because I love it, not because I excel at it. But because I write, I shall slowly excel at it.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
It's the hardest thing in the world to dedicate to writing, but if you do that even once a week, after six… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career. — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
“She’s definitely a romance writer. I’ve primed her to be a romance writer, subjecting her to so many romantic dramas it would… — Samantha Young Copy Share Image
A book of mine is always a matter of fate. There is something unpredictable about the process of writing, and I cannot… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
With non-fiction, there is the struggle to be accurate. With fiction, it is a bit different: the desire to let imagination take… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The most despised sector of Hollywood are the writers. A good writer is quickly promoted to a 'concept man' - and then… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only… — Brian Lumley Copy Share Image
Don't accept what's out there because that is all that's out there. Look for the new and unusual. Seek out what you… — Rob Thurman Copy Share Image
I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Anything by D. H. Lawrence or Jean Genet - 'Zen Mind,' 'Beginner's Mind' is my daily go to for non-fiction. — Brian J. Smith Copy Share Image
“Reading means never being bored and never being lonely. My books are my friends; they always provide me with a place to… — Satinder Bhatti Copy Share Image
“You must always find a partner who can do a few mundane chores around the house so that you can relax in… — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
I don’t write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn’t set out to do that.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A novel which has been too much worked over often goes flat, and no amount of laborious revision can take the place… — Sheila Kaye-Smith Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in writer's block. If I can't write, I go out and live. Then, if I'm a writer, I'll find… — Peter Arpesella Copy Share Image
“Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those… — richelle e. goodrich Copy Share Image
Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I do my business in the morning, and then at 2 P.M., I write fiction for the rest of the day. I… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
