I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much… — Ellen Potter Copy Share Image
There are things I won't do. If they're kind of tacky or caricature-ish or just really badly written, then I'll tend to… — Adam Pearson Copy Share Image
Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel… — Sylvia Brownrigg Copy Share Image
With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good books… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts.” — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
“To forget oneself-to lose oneself in the music, in the moment- that kind of absorption seems to be at the heart of… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“People aren't reading self-published authors because people can't even get past the poor quality of the samples. They aren't reading books they… — Linda Hilton Copy Share Image
“Writing to you like this makes me feel that you are still alive. It’s an illusion I’ve noticed before—words on a page… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
I write a line and then I revise the line and then I write two lines and then I revise lines one… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“That night Christine Hartmann went to bed with a book she had taken from among the many that lay strewn around the… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Well, yes, there were quite a lot of books throughout, tumbling out of haphazardly placed bookshelves, stacked beneath chairs, beside beds, even… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
The Hawk and the Dove is a wonderful idea for a book, wonderfully carried out. Nicholas Thompson has used illuminating new material… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
You don't want to spend your life writing about stuff that doesn't matter. You want to try to pull out of the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story. — Ella Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I'm so focused on trying to craft the story that I'm in my own little world with it and that process. The… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
“There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers - as many different responses as there are readers.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“What better place to kill time than a library? And for me, what better way to get to know someone than through… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Da thought of people as books to be read, but I've always thought of them more as formulas- full of variables, but… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
As a writer, you have control: You can play around with your own thoughts and when you find those insufficient, draw upon… — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
With prodigious bravery and eviscerating humor, Roxane Gay takes on culture and politics in Bad Feminist-and gets it right, time and time… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“Most times, my mind is just an ongoing, present-tense, first-person monologue. It's like I'm writing a novel.” — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention -… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Let no man despise the oracles of books! A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I always was an early-morning or late-night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I loved having a book in my hand. I still do. I wasn't a fast reader, but… — Rhea Perlman Copy Share Image
A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Not uncommonly one hears some romantic young woman say, 'Oh, I would give anything to be a writer.' But she would not;… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Fiction is often a much-needed step back that gives you the distance to see things more clearly; it's very often better at… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written. — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
The trouble with many copywriters in general agencies are that they don't really think in terms of selling. They have never written… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
For me, I just want to continue telling stories - whether it's musically or theatrically, this is what I love to do.… — AJ Michalka Copy Share Image
“While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living. Cyril Connolly (English critic and editor,… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
I want to find those stories that we may talk about at the barbecue or when we're playing bid whist or with… — Ed Gordon Copy Share Image
I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what… — Barbara Taylor Bradford Copy Share Image
“A writer writes to a great extent to be read (let's admire those who say they don't, but not believe them).” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
