Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
If I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
The Kindle is perfect for any on the go reader! It is so easy to learn to use, saves space, is accessible… — Tayshia Adams Copy Share Image
I've developed this love of trashy Russian literature. There's a women's detective series that I was obsessed with for a while, written… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“An author is like an incompetent bricklayer - doesn't use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop.” — Chris Everheart Copy Share Image
I'm not a prophet or a teacher, I just ask questions. I don't think a writer should be a teacher, but should… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
I like to read really good books - anything that's really great, whether it's fiction, non-fiction, how-to, or whatever. — Tyler Hilton Copy Share Image
Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“My goal is to allow readers their own experience of whatever discovery I have made, so that it feels new to them,… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“Why is so impossible to describe a book in a few words?” “That is one of the mysteries of writing. Legend has… — Chelsea M. Cameron Copy Share Image
You must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable-nay, letter by… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Dictionaries, manuals, grammars, study guides and topic notes, classical authors and the entire book trade in de Viris, Quintus-Curtius, Sallust, and Livy… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: What am I trying to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To keep a diary is to attempt a difficult literary form. Its effectiveness is likely to derive from a special blend of… — William Plomer Copy Share Image
I actually do bits of my writing in sort of incidental spaces - when I'm traveling on the Tube or on a… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker… — Patricia McCormick Copy Share Image
I wake up sometimes with an idea and then I write it down. It's not necessarily easy, but when you focus on… — Vince Staples Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of outlining. Here's the theory: If I outline, then I can see the mistakes I'm liable to make.… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
My writing process often begins with a question. I write down ideas and let them stew for about a year. Then, when… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
People don't like it when you compare the miracle of childbirth to writing a book, but I think there is some overlap… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I like to tell personal stories, not point people out and be like, 'You're dumb.' Instead, I put everything on me and… — Nate Bargatze Copy Share Image
“How do you write? You write, man, you write, that’s how…If you practice an art faithfully it will make you wise, and… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
A writer's notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“Before that, my life was always agitated by a tangle of tricks, feints and illusions intended to outwit the countless lures that… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
No agent/publisher is in a position to create across a spectrum of media and distribution what major publishers can accomplish for authors. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good. — Steven Galloway Copy Share Image
“So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask… — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
I know I'm writing better now than I ever did for adults because I'm writing for an audience who know that they… — David Almond Copy Share Image
Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“It’s quite a library, anyway,” she said, trying to sound upbeat. “I’ve begun to think of it as more graveyard than library.… — Matthew J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to… — Robin Wells Copy Share Image
“You know the old bit," he said. "You're on a deserted island. You can have five books. Which do you choose? I… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“[Carlos] Ruiz Zafon holds dear the belief that when you read a book, you take a holiday in the brain of the… — Helen Pitts Copy Share Image
“Katherine Anne Dugan had long ago realized that being pretty helped her to be a better librarian, actually stimulating interest in learning… — Suzanne Roberts Copy Share Image
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