The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“She thought, instead, with longing of more books—of buying books—of slipping into a narrative of other people’s lives. That was release.” — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there… — E. L. James Copy Share Image
“Don't follow the path of writers: the path stinks / you never get paid drinking / sleeping tablets only make the head… — Andy Carrington Copy Share Image
People write or speak sentences in order to produce an effect, and the success of a sentence is measured by the degree… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
I don't want my novel to be like Madame Bovary, finely crafted with the life edited out of it. I want my… — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
I love Sherlock Holmes, but I love any of these old stories where the writer was paid by the word, so the… — Biz Stone Copy Share Image
“There are, you see, two ways of reading a book: you either see it as a box with something inside and start… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
I never know what something is going to be until it emerges from the womb and you see the crown of its… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“-You've got a . . . Lot of books, he said at last. -it's a sickness. -Are you . . . Seeing… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
There’s an assumption that if someone writes in the first person it’s self-indulgent and self-regarding. I just look at it as a… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I like the freedom of novels. With the memoirs, I always had to keep to the facts. I like that with novels,… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
It's certainly a cliche to remark that a nonfiction book 'reads just like a novel,' but in the case of Jonathan Eig's… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
When I write, I feel like an optometrist, constantly flipping between lenses and asking, 'Is this better? Is this?' Slowly, the work… — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
For me, literature is the daughter of music: a bit heavy and more level headed than its mother. Literature submits to the… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
I tried for about a year to write a teenage character until I finally got the phrase 'he has lost the power… — Harry Enfield Copy Share Image
“I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere,… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure.… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
“Why is life a constant disappointment?' 'Because we read fiction,' Mia said, and Shelley nodded, knowing it was true.” — Victoria Connelly Copy Share Image
“But I'm also addicted to books. And I know there has never been a human being or a television show, no matter… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“I know, but it is a pleasant fiction, my dear, and the sheer impossibility of a quest is no reason to abandon… — Graham McNeill Copy Share Image
Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just… — Quentin Blake Copy Share Image
The worst thing you can try to do is to steer the story once it gets going. You just kind of follow… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The way that I write novels in particular is I don't usually outline; I just write. Part of the fun is discovering… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
“In stark contrast to eCampus, Powell’s Books is a service that is very picky about the condition of the books that they… — Satrap Copy Share Image
Writing is my breathe, so I breathe it everyday. Whatever your breathe is, breathe it deeply and consistently and live wholly. — Shirley Copy Share Image
“Writing is a disciplined, methodical, and systematic method that a person can logically employ to awaken dominant layers of consciousness.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Everyone now, not just writers, creates a written, published persona on a daily (hourly) basis. Artifice abounds.” — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“Do not buy finery or jewels, because books are worth more than they are. Adorn your understanding with their precious ideas, because… — Luisa Capetillo Copy Share Image
Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
