Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery. — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but… — Naomi Benaron Copy Share Image
The make-believe world of 'The Black Tower' succeeds by broadcasting larger truths that might otherwise elude us. — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
“Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot of difference. They don't have to make speeches.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
If I were a writer, the Pulitzer Prize would be important to me. This is my profession, so an Oscar is important. — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“My advice is not to wait to be struck by an idea. If you're a writer, you sit down and damn well… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
If you notice phrases, ideas, and anecdotes that closely resemble those that appear elsewhere in my writing, it's not a matter of… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Steiner has here transformed the vaporous conceptions of his life, the vapors of what never was and never will be, from their… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
“To get a better idea try this: focus on these words, and whatever you do don’t let your eyes wander past the… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
What writers do is they tell their own story constantly through other people's stories. They imagine other people, and those other people… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“Younger than Morini and Pelletier, Espinoza studied Spanish literature, not German literature, at least for the first two years of his university… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
Reading and writing don't inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
“...indeed it is in the General Cemetery that the results of progress are set out before the eyes of the studious or… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
Literature can no longer be either Mimesis or Mathesis but merely Semiosis, the adventure of what is impossible to language, in a… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
“If you want to damage a culture - attack it's libraries. Libraries can be as strong as a tree, but they're as… — Stephen Abrams Copy Share Image
When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
It struck me that when we read picture books to children, we parents, and people as a whole, do not appear in… — Mamoru Hosoda Copy Share Image
I write all the time. I always have. I can pick up my horn to warm up, and an idea will pop… — Wadada Leo Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes the title comes to you at the beginning, sometimes it comes at the end. The very best way in my experience… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“We have had a number of books casting the acid of angry rejection over the spirit of our age. They are not… — Gregory Wolfe Copy Share Image
“I love my style of writing. Nope, it's not the most poetic stuff you've ever read but you know, it can evoke… — Erin M. Truesdale Copy Share Image
There are those who, while reading a book, recall, compare, conjure up emotions from other, previous readings. This is one of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.” — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I've been writing short stories for twenty years now, on and off ever since I was in the creative writing program at… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
One of my rules about writing exercises is you never are allowed to put them in your book because it's just too… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Terry Spear weaves paranormal, suspense, and romance together in one non-stop rollercoaster of passion and adventure. - Love Romance Passion” — Terry Spear Copy Share Image
It's a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“But the library - especially one so vast - is no mere cabinet of curiosities; it's a world, complete and uncompleteable, and… — Matthew Battles Copy Share Image
“I write so the endangered thoughts roaming naked and vulnerable through the misty jungles of my mind aren't slain by the guns… — Kim Krizan Copy Share Image
“Reading is a time machine that allows you to acquire wisdom from the past and to analyze and imagine another person’s vision… — Joshua Rogers Copy Share Image
“I've received two key pieces of advice in regard to my books. The first is, "You should lay off the f-bombs." The… — LINCOLN PARK Copy Share Image
The hardest thing to teach young writers is that it's wonderful to tell your truth. And that's what you should do. But… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“... before parting that night we agreed that the objects of life were to produce good people and good books.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I always felt my writing could benefit from the attention of established writers. I knew my work could grow and be better. — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an… — C. S. Forester Copy Share Image
