The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I didn't really realize that writing... would be fun and people would pay you to do it. Being an astronaut is a… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me… — Madhur Bhandarkar Copy Share Image
The first challenge that every writer or creator of material faces is getting through the crowd so that the person you're trying… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when you're writing sentence by sentence, you're not really sure what footprints you're going to fall into, or what ghosts might… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that… — Farley Mowat Copy Share Image
A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
“Whether you know it or not, your desire to write comes from the urge to not just be “creative,” it’s a need… — Shawn Coyne Copy Share Image
“I’m reading this fun Christian romance by an author who lives in Seattle named Lesley Ann McDaniel. It’s called Saving Grace and… — Lynnette Bonner Copy Share Image
I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
“My father did not bring it up, but of course I knew that he had another reason to worry about my decision… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
A library is but the soul's burial ground; it is the land of shadows. Yet one is impressed with the thought, the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Rodrigo Garcia is a brilliant writer. He just loves women. It is evident. When you are in the presence of him you… — Naomi Watts Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I only write to understand myself better... I don't try to show how intelligent or how cultivated I am, I just try… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“You learn to read so you can identify the reality in which you live, so that you can become a protagonist history… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Kind of bloodthirsty, don't you think, Charles?" said John. "I'm an editor," said Charles. "I have to make decisions like that all… — James A. Owen Copy Share Image
I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only when you have completed a novel, or a story, can you return to the beginning and revise or rewrite. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I would like to write a book that wasn't so violent and weird, but I just don't think I can do that… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
“The book, and its offspring the periodical, which hold more knowledge than one human memory can retain, have long served as extensions… — Frederick Kilgour Copy Share Image
So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great… — Karrine Steffans Copy Share Image
I felt that writing about peoples' lives was a heck of a responsibility, and I wanted to know them in a deep… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I'm always amazed by writers who say, 'Oh you know I had a half hour so I sat down and wrote a… — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I don't get writer's block. I don't try to write anything; when something comes, I write it. I just practice and when… — Jose James Copy Share Image
Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down,… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I think if someone is writing continuously for 10 years and has not changed their mind about something - there's something wrong… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
“The two of them were sat at the circular desk in the library, waiting for 1pm so they could go for lunch.… — E.A. Price Copy Share Image
When you're writing something new, writing something that's your own, basically you have nothing else to do except either invent a trick,… — Nico Muhly Copy Share Image
I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back. — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Maybe one day I'll make a record that's really mysterious and no one knows where it came from or what I wrote… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied… — Eric Brown Copy Share Image
