At the age of thirty-five, I have just begun to become the kind of person who could understand the kind of book… — Ingrid Bengis Copy Share Image
I'm terrified of writing at night, for then I can't sleep. So I start slowly, slowly writing in the morning and go… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Writing is, after all, a gesture towards other people, giving something to others. And so it's not a completely hermetic exercise. It's… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about. -- Huck Finn” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
I consider myself fortunate that I am in the position to decide which is the most effective way to tell our stories. — Garth Kravits Copy Share Image
I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures. — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
After you've lived with somebody for 11 years, what's a guy in a robe reading from a book going to change? — Danny DeVito Copy Share Image
You don't have to become an investment banker as a way of demonstrating that education has worked for you. But librarians have… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
“And it's what you never will write," said the Controller. "Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“We do need knowledge. . . Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Writers always sound insufferably smug when they sit back and assert that their job is only to ask questions and not to… — David Hare Copy Share Image
It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
The key to being a wonderful writer is not to write. You just get out of the way. Leave room for God… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“I would like to write one of those sophisticated stories in which even though nothing much happens there’s lots to write about.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Reading is the act of listening and speaking at the same time, with someone you've never met, but love. Even if you… — Daniel Nayeri Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be a writer. I've been writing since I was probably four years old - it was nonsense, but… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
We never had books in the house. Not any book in our house. Not a Bible, not anything. So, I would go… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
As a writer, I try to turn my feelings and experiences into a different form entirely, something that gives me mastery over… — Scott Spencer Copy Share Image
If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
In the beginning, I tried to be a more cosmopolitan writer, but I realized that I was a country boy, and I… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
Literature seems to offer lessons in human nature that help us decode the world around us and be better friends. — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
“Junior writers $300; Minor poets—$500 a week; Broken novelists—$850-1000; One play dramatists—$1500; Sucks—$2000. Wits—$2500.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“While I do see lots of repetitious writing among authors, that does not apply to all, and certainly not to me. Average… — Calvin W. Allison Copy Share Image
“Writing is both wonderful and awful; you go from feeling inspired by the muses to feeling totally dull and boring.” — Bea Cannon Copy Share Image
Did you ever admire an empty-headed writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Do not dictate to your author; try to become him,” Woolf proclaims. “Be his fellow-worker and accomplice.” — David Mikics Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the small moment, in the minutia of things, and in the small moment, so I tend to tell stories… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
“You know, it's not only writers who have this problem, but writers really, really have this problem; for us, a so-called train… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But when one has made… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
I haven't stopped writing which is good. I'm scared to stop completely otherwise it might lead to stagnancy. — Kimbra Copy Share Image
I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I'm one of those crazy people who have to write every day. Otherwise, I feel really sort of despondent, and it's because… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
“The fire was set in the Library of Records by the Baudelaire murderers, and has spread to the Sore Throat Ward, the… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I write every day for two hours. But it's what I do for the other twenty-two hours that allows me to write. — Don Murray Copy Share Image
Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me. — Tim Roth Copy Share Image
