“A deadline gets a writer's work done done better and faster than any inspiration, if only because inspirations don't always come, but… — AA Patawaran Copy Share Image
I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I like the idea of being a novelist. I picture myself on the coast, the wind in my hair, horses galloping around… — Sara Cox Copy Share Image
I believe that anyone who doesn't read remains dumb. Even if they know how, failing to regularly ingest the written word dooms… — Edward Bunker Copy Share Image
The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
The thing I love about this story [The Killing] and this type of storytelling is that I don't have to know the… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
“Fiction inhabits the zone between the real and the impossible. The tug of those two poles is what gives it motion, vitality.… — Vinnie Tesla Copy Share Image
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You really don't understand the first thing about writing...for one thing, early in the morning is the worst possible time. the brain… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“Fiction in general holds little interest for me. Novels, in particular, arouse more suspicion than intrigue. It truly baffles me that any… — Dan Garfat-Pratt Copy Share Image
A human being creates complexity by writing a novel on the surface of paper; a weather system creates complexity by writing waves… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Many books in my library are now behind and beneath me. They were good in their way once, and so were the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“In Dostoevsky illness and death were almost always dirty, impoverished affairs. Crushed beneath wagon wheels, mud, typhus, blood-stained handkerchiefs. And so on.… — Lindqvist John Ajvide Copy Share Image
Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Everything about writing is hard for me except for that - the names pop into my head. That's one of the reasons… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Mom always says you can solve most problems at the library, and there's a lady there who's my friend. We could ask… — Laurel Snyder Copy Share Image
We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title books), and you have time to… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I must not step into too spruce a style for serious matters; and yet I approve not the dull insipid way of… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
“I think good promotion is every bit as important as a good product. I consider it arrogant to assume the world will… — Alistair Cross Copy Share Image
(W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspired. It's mainly… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
There are a lot of writers who find a groove and spend a career mining that vein. I seem to be exactly… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“a first encounter with a worthwhile book is never a complete encounter, and we are usually in error to make it a… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together,… — Dick Bruna Copy Share Image
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
What I have to write, the story, it is always going on in my mind. What incidences I can add in the… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
I realize that I am typically vulnerable only when and where and how much it suits me. I can choose my writer… — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good.… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“Scott then walked slowly from room to room, noticing what had been snatched and what was unwanted even by the desperate. No… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
The most important thing for me is realism. I don't like writing which does somersaults on the page, and I'm no great… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I don't want to live in a hand -me -down world of others' experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries,… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
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