I started writing, then said I don't know if I want to share all that. I don't know if I want to… — Jason Taylor Copy Share Image
Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations ... — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I'm nothing. Nothing at all without writing. Without truth, my truth, the only truth I know, it's all a gambol in the… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“I don't browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
Despite the ever-increasing financial pressures experienced by writers and the ever-decreasing space afforded by the media to books, writers are still willing… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can - hubris, I suppose… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I often give this metaphor where I say that writing short fiction is like surfing, while writing a novel is like navigating… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
A bran' new book is a beautiful thing, all promise and fresh pages, the neatly squared spine, the brisk sense of a… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
“She picked up her book and tried to read but it was heavy in her hands. She struggled to hold it, wanting… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
The library was home away from home to my mom, and my family. We had spent every Sunday afternoon there since I… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
All writers learn this, in time: don't show your work to other people until it's safely finished. Even discussing your unborn book… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Usually when I put together a book like this Death-Ray hardcover or that Ghost World special edition, then I have to reread… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
If you can start and finish a book, then you're already a million miles ahead of all those people who talk about… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
“Kay came to realize that she preferred her books to other people’s company. Reading was not a fallback position for her but… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
“I walked inside and paused for a moment to breathe in the scent of paper and dust—the perfumes of knowledge.” — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
“...If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood—but no self- respecting writer should ever… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action. — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
I hate libraries for the way they put stickers on things. I don't approve of folding over pages, or of writing in… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“All I had to do was open a book - to see the stories bleeding from page to page. To see the… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“the act of writing will make you a better student, a better worker, a better friend, a better citizen, a better parent,… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breath, and thus to… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Having a point to start is important. You know that when you decide to write something it's like a commitment. It's like… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
With traditional school visits, I also get to speak with people who haven't read my books and talk about my writing process… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
Writing a book is like washing an elephant: there's no good place to begin or end, and it's hard to keep track… — Azgraybebly Josland Copy Share Image
For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing. — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
It's nice to have the creative freedom to write about whatever and no longer feeling those restrictions I had when I was 15. — Cody Simpson Copy Share Image
Whatever I read went under my skin. I almost devoured the literature, which became like a road to discovery. — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life. — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the… — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
I wish I could go back and re-write my first novel for the first time. Because I really didn't know what I… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough – I wrote faster than I would write a letter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
