I used music and reading to erase my world, so basically I read for up to 16 hours a day for 23 years. — Nick Yarris Copy Share Image
“Writing is a manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.” — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday. — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
Writing a novel, I am making is an object that has a life and identity of its own, apart from me. — Jay Neugeboren Copy Share Image
You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others. — Joseph Delaney Copy Share Image
The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
“Good literature is a mirror through which we see ourselves more clearly.” — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
For about as long as I've been writing fiction, I've kept a record of the books I've read. — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
“Hey, you write with a ballpoint pen, and I write with a ballpoint pen ... Let’s make us the Blue Pen Club!… — Melissa Terras Copy Share Image
Writers need their totems, their altars. Mine, I feel, share the same randomness and utility of those belonging to painters I know,… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“I need a sitting room where I can entertain my friends, but I must have a library where my books entertain me.” — great-grandson of John & Abigail Adams Brooks Adams Copy Share Image
I’ll just say one word: Icarus. If you get it, great. If you don’t, that’s fine too. But you should probably read… — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
The advice I would offer to any writer is that even when you think you have revised your book to the point… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
“I keep telling you, you don't pay enough attention to the minor characters. A novel should be like a street full of… — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life. — David Walliams Copy Share Image
You can't really discover the most interesting conflicts and problems in a subject until you've tried to write about them. At that… — Anthony F. C. Wallace Copy Share Image
“Every so often I'll hear writers say that there are other writers they would read if for no other reason than to… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in my case. I re-read Pound… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
We're all born storytellers. It's part of the species. But, more specifically, I suppose a particular combination of sensitivity and trauma made… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
I start out to write five days a week, and then it runs to six days and finally seven. Then, eventually, that… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I write because there is a night a day dawn dusk shadow and light and because there will always be seasons to… — Amina Saïd Copy Share Image
“I have had so many spectacular failures, but looking back, I can see how each of them led me a little closer… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
Reading is a gymnasium for the imagination where people can work out, get ready for the shocks of existence. [...] For me,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
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