I think being a writer was a crappy job when you just had typewriters. It was crappy when we just had ink… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
And when I'm writing well and when I'm inside the feeling, then I can do fairly complicated things with some fluency. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my… — Rene Char Copy Share Image
Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it -… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“Think of these books as doors. Open them and let their ideas stir your mind. Study them and they become weapons.” — Anna K. Lane Copy Share Image
As a guest who doesn't eat, drink or smoke, you leave much to be desired, but as a writer, you're my girl. — Thelma Ritter Copy Share Image
I always was going to be a writer. The other jobs were just to keep me in food. Though I enjoyed the… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
It always felt like the price of being a writer was that you would - even in the most terrible moments, there… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“-why had she found the story so absorbing? Of course it was quite possible she hadn't. Maybe she merely preferred a novel--any… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
The fictionally correct have all the answers, and that's what's wrong with them. They're artistic technocrats. There's no dilemma so knotty, no… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
You don't choose your themes; they choose you. The meaning of your stories will rise out of your deepest longings, often out… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
See, you can't rewrite, 'cause to rewrite is to deceive and lie, and you betray your own thoughts. To rethink the flow… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
“1. Write. 2. Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down. 3. Finish what you're writing. Whatever you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Hemingway is a baby when he turns up in Paris, but he's an ambitious baby. And he has the talent. And he's… — Lesley M. M. Blume Copy Share Image
It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
“T[he rules of writing] require that the episodes in a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back… — Donald McKay Copy Share Image
“For some reason, the act of writing them down makes me remember. Each word I write brings me closer to finding the… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
I will write things, he was thinking. I will write something meaningful and wonderful someday. I can do that. And I'll dedicate… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Making a self can be like writing, and now I think writing can be like home: a space you make that you… — Jane Alison Copy Share Image
I don't think it's important for everyone necessarily, and I totally respect that because everyone writes differently. — Neko Case Copy Share Image
I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever. — Reeve Carney Copy Share Image
Bookstore operators tell us that the books which head the bestseller list are books on peace and happiness. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
I love my editor, but that would be the definition of hell to me to live with someone and have them go… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“He never studied, not a paper, not a textbook . . . the books he reads are the people that come to him,” — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting it into a chair and not moving from the chair for… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This dazzling, unput-downable debut novel proves beyond a doubt that Dan Wells has the gift. His teenage protagonist is as chilling as… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
“A person could be immensely happy reading only him or the writers he loved. But that would be too easy.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I try and get it right the first time. I may rewrite a sentence four or five times, but I rarely go… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“She seemed to think reading was some sort of hobby, as opposed to being as necessary as breathing, sleeping, and eating.” — Michelle Cooper Copy Share Image
It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
“The reader may not see [these meanings], but they have their effect on him nonetheless. This is the way the modern novelist… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
You have to be good. And keep getting better. For every writer taken on, another is dropped. A paradox: you have to… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
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