Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some,… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
You've been reading Gordan's book again, haven't you?" "It's a white-knuckle roller-coaster ride," she mumbled. — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
In fact, I only had a cameo role in 'QH,' but the writer and director sensed my talent and in Season 2… — Amrapali Gupta Copy Share Image
Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There's no point for me in being a writer and having all these blocked places where I feel I can't think freely… — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
I almost never write because I want something from my audience. Almost everything I've ever written, I've written because I feel like… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
I've always got a novel under way, but if I try to work on it every day, exclusively, I falter. So I… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
The novel, as a genre, was once considered a diversion every bit as frivolous as Facebook, but over the years, we've managed… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
“I’m feeling a low regarding writing. I sometimes think I should finish working on my book of stripper poetry that I started,… — Sheila Hageman Copy Share Image
“When other children dreamed of mansions with fountains and big silky beds and servants to do their bidding, this was what Belle… — Liz Braswell Copy Share Image
Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
THE LONG WALK is a raw, wrenching, blood-soaked chronicle of the human cost of war. Brian Castner, the leader of a military… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Fiction is a set of observable manifestations, as represented and frozen in language, that triggers a profoundly subjective and individual experience. Ultimately,… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
“A truly good book…teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living on its hint.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'm too impatient to wait for things to happen to me. If I should be out of work for two months I… — Erland Josephson Copy Share Image
Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“The flashing black line on an empty Word document reminds me that my life is counting down second by second, and that… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“She's the first person to smile at me today. The first to make me feel wanted. Understood. I blink back tears. It's… — Lisa Fipps Copy Share Image
People put off writing thinking they don't have the time or enough of an opinion to matter and that is crap. You… — C.C. Chapman Copy Share Image
“With exceptions so rare that it is hard to remember one, textbooks are to books as powdered food supplements are to a… — Gregory Millman Copy Share Image
The author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense… — Garance Dore Copy Share Image
“Unable to explore setting, conflict, characters or themes in their fiction, the mainstreamers wrote more and more eloquently about nothing at all.” — Dave Wolverton Copy Share Image
My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
I don't have one favourite spot - I love writing anywhere that I feel inspired. I have to admit that I do… — Ella Woodward Copy Share Image
“writers are like gods in their own little universes, constantly weaving lives, worlds, people, relationships and conflicts into existence.” — Yefon Isabelle Copy Share Image
There's no excuse therefore, for a 1,152 page book. I think we should all be using 300-page paperbacks. These exist. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“I write fiction not for my readers and not for myself. I write fiction for the sake of those odd heroic characters… — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice. — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
Ultimately, when you write from a vantage point of faith, humility, and openness to the world around you, people have to respond… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
“Being a writer guarantees that you will spend too much time alone -- and that as a result, your mind will begin… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I like to leave things open, and even when I write out the story ahead of time, it always changes. I don't… — Charles Forsman Copy Share Image
“Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to listen to your mind and endure the life of the writer” — Wahab Oriyomi Osuolale Copy Share Image
Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“I don't write like this in order to show how clever and well read I am--though I am rather clever and well… — John Heath-Stubbs Copy Share Image
In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
My agent is so totally honest, which is just what every writer needs. She won't let me sell a crappy book, even… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
