A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
I would probably work with Drake as he is massively inspirational to me as a writer as well as an artist. If… — Conor Maynard Copy Share Image
One might say that the novel is the genre that most predisposes one to a profound insight into the tremendous life around… — Mikhail Sholokhov Copy Share Image
I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for… — Marcel Achard Copy Share Image
Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
To say that creative writing courses are all useless is almost as silly as saying all editors are useless. Writers of all… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Jim Greenfield’s The Taxman Cometh will undoubtedly put a smile on the face of even the most dedicated big government freeloader. In… — Lars Larson Copy Share Image
I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Books have been handed down from generation to generation, as the true teachers of piety and the love of God, that represent… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Any good story can galvanize a person, make him/her think about things a different way, reassess their own motives and needs, but… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
My chief time for reading is at night while brushing my hair before I go to bed, and as you may suppose,… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block. When I find myself frozen-whether I'm… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“The righteous will possess the earth, and they will live forever on it." PSALM 37:29. ~Stop being envious no one can make… — Ray Rage Patino Copy Share Image
I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should… — Bobby Orr Copy Share Image
I haven't given any thought to collaborating with my sisters. It would be great fun. My daughter Molly is a wonderful writer… — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
There are times my stories become - what I feel - not only accessible to hearing me on television, but they make… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage. — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
It's true that some of us become better writers by living long enough. But this is also how we become worse writers.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I'm no good at describing my books. 'Holes' has been out now for seven years, and I still can't come up with… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
I said in my acceptance speech that I hope that readers remember this not as the year I won the Booker, but… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I should say that I'm not conscious of any particular style or any particular literary device when I am writing. I have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“An unedited manuscript is a first draft of story; but is not a finished product. Too many writers study the craft of… — Michael J. Kannengieser Copy Share Image
It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“We as authors sign a pact with our readers; they'll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them… — Pamela Glass Kelly Copy Share Image
There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Saying things on paper that I would never, ever say, and saying things to myself, admitting things to myself, about myself and… — India Arie Copy Share Image
“Hacks are killing our national literary culture. America treats best-sellers like literary lions and literary lions worse than stray dogs.” — David B. Lentz Copy Share Image
I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Short fiction and the novel, nonfiction and fiction, electronic texts and books - these are not opposites. One need not destroy the… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Reading a book is like having the ability to dip a straw into the authors soul and sip and slurp without lowering… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
For making a good comedy film, you need a good writer whose craft can be understood through the time that he takes… — Johnny Lever Copy Share Image
“Why do we write? "To make suffering endurable To make evil intelligible To make justice desirable and . . . to make love possible” — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons;… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
