Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
It is actually a lot harder to sit down and write from A to Z. But for me at least, it's the… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
The most important sentence in a good book is the first one; it will contain the organic seed from which all that… — Paul Horgan Copy Share Image
Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be? — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“Fiction has to be well researched, properly conceived and logically presented. Reality needs none of the above.” — Manoj Vaz Copy Share Image
Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“No thinking – that comes later. You write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He didn’t remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has a ripe furrow and a… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Search your own life for the story only you can tell. The best thing about writing from life is that you can… — Elizabeth Forsythe Copy Share Image
If you want to write and can't figure out how to do it, try this: Pick an amount of time to sit… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time trying to layer upon layer upon layer as I wrote. I think that's often the fear… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
If you want to be a well-paid copywriter, please your client. If you want to be an award-winning copywriter, please yourself. If… — Steve Hayden Copy Share Image
Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“I sometimes marvel that a third-rate writer like me has been able to palm himself off as a second-rate writer.” — John Collier Copy Share Image
The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find… — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get… — William Golding Copy Share Image
There are writers I know and respect who are very good about what's outside, and not too hot about what's inside. — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
“A book is as dangerous as any journey you might take. The person who closes the back cover may not be the… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The library has a robust collection of what I call non-cuddly hate lit. This is one of my favorite things about working… — Josh Hanagarne Copy Share Image
When you're chasing story lines, it's very challenging. It's hard enough to have a relationship in any case, let alone one where… — Spencer Pratt Copy Share Image
Writers sometimes talk as though they were the only friends of civilization. This is their conceit. But they have special powers to… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
My life has really been about writing, though some think it's all about once having been in a ball dress and having… — Emma Tennant Copy Share Image
“The woman knelt among the books, touching the drenched leather and cardboard, reading the gilt titles with her fingers while her eyes… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys the writing, even if he doesn’t get paid for it.” — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
“Fiction gives us a reach into the lives of individuals that would otherwise be but a closed door. If we are gifted… — James D. Maxon Copy Share Image
i keep drinking the ink from my pen and i'm balancing history books up on my head but it all boils down… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
“I love writing, but I would be able to love it more if that love wasn’t motivated by fear of homelessness.” — Jenny Trout Copy Share Image
Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of… — Josef Skvorecky Copy Share Image
“I hope you enjoy reading my book as much as I didn’t enjoy writing it. Just kidding! I hope you don’t enjoy… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
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