I'm not a compulsive writer. I wish I could be compulsive about something. I have no regular writing routine. — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
Books are made not like children but like pyramids and they're just as useless! And they stay in the desert! Jackals piss… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I don't read my books, so I don't allow myself the dangerous luxury of toying with the idea of doing things differently. — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Any Canadian looking in the bathroom mirror is sure to recognize one of Guy Vanderhaeghe's people. Man Descending is the startling debut… — Rudy Wiebe Copy Share Image
A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
“Writing- the profession in which you stare at a computer screen, stare out the window, type a few words, then curse repeatedly.” — Drew Goodman Copy Share Image
“I think people need hope when times are tough. I think they also need escape and adventure and fantasy. Books are like… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I think writing is a mixture of craft, inspiration, and being incredibly, courageously explorative with yourself - and being brutally honest,… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
“In a great library, you get into society in the widest sense. . . . From that great crowd you can choose… — Somerset Maughn Copy Share Image
I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
At its heartmeat core, writing is about exploring the questions of your heart on the assumption that what intrigues you, what inflames… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
There are two different ways of writing a novel. The first I call the traditional father way, when the novelist slightly situates… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her; for her love of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends as next-door neighbors in the late 1920s, when they were about kindergarten age. From the… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
I used to be a pre-industrial writer: thousands of words in a spurt and then a few days off. But as I… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
“One of the vital things for a writer who’s writing a book, which is a lengthy project and is going to take… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
If I'm reading a book and it seems truly interesting, I tend to start reading back to front in order not to… — David Shields Copy Share Image
My father thought a novel was a broken short story. There's something to that. Many of my favorite novels are novellas. The… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
I read in a weird way. It comes in waves, and then I start, like, five different books at once. It takes… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
As a writer, I can live somewhat independently, occupying nooks and crannies and finding meaning there. I can even live in my… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
“A book is tremendously important. Nobody ever paid for the price of a book, they only paid for the printing” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I get back from a mid-morning stroll, I'll do some writing then I'll typically spend the day testing new recipes. — Nadiya Hussain Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, is an extension of thinking - it's my way of processing, and only when I've gotten something down on… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
A novel is a journey into your own soul, and you seek there to discover those things that you share with all… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim.” — Linton Weeks Copy Share Image
“I was not gentle on my books. I read while I ate, I read in the bathtub. At night, I rolled over… — Georgia Bell Copy Share Image
“My first draft is the skeleton of the story. I have to go back over it from start to finish repeatedly, adding… — Alisha Ashton Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly. — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
“You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play. — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Give my book The Sixties Girl a read. You'll love it. You'll laugh, cry and find yoursel wanting more.” — Victoria Staat Copy Share Image
“In writing, as in life, its not the big words that are the problem its the little minds that read them.” — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
“When you write, you are telling a story...to yourself. When you revise, you are telling a story to yourself...over and over again.” — Kai Strand Copy Share Image
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