“Dinginess is death to a writer. Filth, discomfort, hunger, cold, trauma and drama, don't matter a bit.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
Fiction does not invent out of a vacuum, but it invents; and what it invents is, first, the fabric and cadence of… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Once you know what it is in life that you want to do, then the world basically becomes your library. Everything you… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
I don't believe novels should carry an obvious message. I don't want to write characters you can immediately say are good or… — Christopher Koch Copy Share Image
“Suppose you were to read an entire book each week for the next seventy years. You would read 3,640 books.” — Joe J. Christensen Copy Share Image
“Martin had a period of relishing the Boston thug-writer George V. Higgins, author of The Friends of Eddie Coyle . Higgins’s characters… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The questions that I ask myself, I think they're very much to do with reality. I would really like to have had… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
It's no surprise that the droll and (seemingly) all-knowing wizard behind the Chicago Style Q&A puts it all together-entertainingly-for manuscript editors in… — Arthur Plotnik Copy Share Image
“There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof I hope there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
My son is someone who wants to be a writer. My sons been writing for a long time, since he was 14,… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I try to do stories that make a difference -- stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to… — Ann Curry Copy Share Image
I feel that people have asked me my age I don't actually think that thirty is particularly young for a first book… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
If I have to write on an airplane or get up early to write or write late, you just gotta sit down.… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
For me, a novel relying too heavily on a single idea might be a dry, deadly thing unless it possesses an animating… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
In a crazy way, writing is a lot like any kind of very complex game - like chess, where you have the… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for… — Jesse James Garrett Copy Share Image
“On writing... "It’s a walk into the darkest corners of my imagination where my nightmares fester until something living and breathing escapes… — J.E. Taylor Copy Share Image
“It has all the right ingredients: rich contents, friendly, personal language, subtle humor, the right references, and a plethora of pointers to… — Steven S. Skiena Copy Share Image
I've always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward,… — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
There are so many different ways, most of them helpful and legal, to get yourself into a state of mind where writing… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
“If stone-sober people can fuck like they're out of their minds -- can actually be out of their minds while caught in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any… — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
I think that the more alien and strange a world or situation is, the more concise you have to be if you… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“When a writer has deep thoughts, I expect him to also have a deep voice. And if he doesn’t, he should remain… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I can't do anything other than writing. I'm not very able, generally. If I'd not been a writer, I would probably be… — Jack Thorne Copy Share Image
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Clothing left on the bed unfolded. Books stained with coffee spots. Tabs not paid until the last possible second. Boys kissed and… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
There are good writers and bad writers. It's hard to find writers who really speak to you, but the work is out… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The things you're looking for...are in the world, but the only way the average chap will see ninety-nine percent of them is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Those of you who are ignoring my writing are doing it at your own risk. I am writing passionately for the last… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Nothing is more satisfying to me than sitting in a dank room, hunched over a single flickering candle like Ebenezer Scrooge, and… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
