I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the needs of an immediate public, but was done to last… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
“... Bookstore, which smelled the way only a new book from England does when you open it for the first time, faintly… — Frederick Beuchner Copy Share Image
“Is that so? Trauma in Hampstead? Let me guess, catastrophic hernias from making a mistake picking up a sack of money, reaching… — Alen Mattich Copy Share Image
The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of… — Paul Westerberg Copy Share Image
Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It's so cheap to buy that kind of ticket. — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
“But, it didn’t matter that my mother suspected and knew that I was a writer. It was expected of me to take… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
Teaching other people to write is not something I can do. The only kind of advice I can give them will be… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“For a writer, it seems a help rather than a hindrance to be at least a little crazy. Who but a crazy… — Leland Dirks Copy Share Image
For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
A novel, for me, relies on my imagination to inspire your (the reader's) imagination. It is not all there for you. My… — Jay Neugeboren Copy Share Image
“We were working on what became Finnegan's Wake, and there was a knock at the door. I didn't hear it, so when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy! — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
When you write for kids, people always ask you what lesson you mean to impart. I don't think adult writers get that… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
We do seem, as a culture, to fetishize the "sweep." But I know there's room for "big" short, fierce novels, and "big"… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
With luck, a writer capable of producing both Slouching Towards Kalamazoo and The Blood of the Lamb will not remain unappreciated for… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
“70 out of 100 people in the world cannot read... if you can read then you are the luckiest out of 2… — Call Bain Copy Share Image
Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have… — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
Writing is great because in the writing you never have to... First of all you never have to leave your home. And… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Read. Read every chance you get. Read to keep growing. Read history. Read poetry. Read for pure enjoyment. Read a book called… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Writing shouldn't come between the reader and what's being described. It should be as transparent as possible. — Diana Athill Copy Share Image
At least for me, it takes more knowledge to write fiction than nonfiction. At least about someplace that I begin with a… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Being a writer is a very difficult craft. Just like learning an instrument, it takes a long time and I couldn't really… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies,… — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
I know so many writers who are a hundred times better than me and have longer, greater ideas than mine, but they… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I know that the writers I read and admire all have an influence on my work, but trying to determine to what… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
Many of the books on my list are, in my opinion, amazing. Some I didn't like. But I give them all five… — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Johnson Publishing Co. has always had a first-class image. And until the day I die, I want to keep that image. — Linda Johnson Rice Copy Share Image
The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been… — Roger Moore Copy Share Image
Like a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I started carrying blank books like this one around, which I would fill with all the things I couldn't say... — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Boy, this is your lucky day!" She clapped her hands. "You found yourself a librarian! I can help wit the figuring-out thing… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
