You know, you lose a lot of social skills if you’re a writer. You spend too long alone. And it’s forced me… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
“A fiction writer is nothing more then the ambassador of an alternative world of their own design. Their success dwells in how… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I can focus on writing, or I can get lost in wonderfully fun but endless conversations and produce nothing new at all.… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Publishing, legacy or indie, is a vehicle, and you can't opine about whether someone has chosen the right vehicle if you don't… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
If I didn't write in my journal every couple of days, I felt like I was going to burst. Later I learned… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“If you want to write, you can. Fear stops most people from writing, not lack of talent, whatever that is. Who am… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
Some writers research in order to write. I write in order to research topics that interest me. Especially if I can meet… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Are my characters copies of people in real life? ... Don't ever believe the stories about authors putting people into novels. That… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I don't think people are averse to thinking about things in a deep way, but we have limited time and opportunity to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I outline in some detail, but even after the outline is done I often get a new idea that is an improvement,… — Jeff Abbott Copy Share Image
Write because you love it and not because it is something that you think you should do. Always write about something or… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
The last time I was in Spain I got through six Jeffrey Archer novels. I must remember to take enough toilet paper… — Bob Monkhouse Copy Share Image
I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
It's an incredible privilege to be able to sit in front of a computer and spend a few hours just thinking and… — Nick Blaemire Copy Share Image
“But i would love to write something, maybe a book. I want to travel to a small town someday - one with… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You can already download any of the religious texts onto electronic mechanisms like a Kindle. But I think many people prefer to… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I'm sure it came as no surprise to my friends and family when I became an illustrator and then a writer because,… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
My last book was speculative. I just don't quite know what I am doing. But I'll get there. I have a list… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
As if the night has been created for the writers and as if the silence of it is the very inspiration itself! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
People think that writing is writing, but actually writing is editing. Otherwise, you're just taking notes — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
There's two identity markers I'm sure of, and one is, I'm Jewish. And the other is, I'm a writer. There's just no… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
My reading practice is one reason I mostly don't read electronically. Different books are in different rooms of my house, and one… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop… — George Sand Copy Share Image
“Some books that were rejected multiple times, but are now famous, are J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and Beatrice… — Adam Anderson Copy Share Image
“The best things about writing are the freedom to please yourself creatively, personal accomplishment and the journey of personal growth. The worst… — Ron Houston Copy Share Image
I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be a writer from as far back as I can remember. That was my talent. Lord knows… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
