The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out. — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“A writer's goal is to weave the ordinary into fine silk and the truly extraordinary into diaphanous clarity ...” — CJ Heck Copy Share Image
There's no writers room, or any other writer involved. I write everything from beginning to end. Maybe it's just me not being… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Every reader is different. There's no book that's inappropriate for every person, but there are people who cannot handle everything. — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and… — Ann M. Martin Copy Share Image
The earliest impetuses for writing, for me, were simply the strange things I happened to notice in my everyday life, stuff I… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
At Zappos, one of our core values is to Pursue Growth and Learning. In the lobby of our headquarters, we have a… — Tony Hsieh Copy Share Image
I have a group of cafes and coffee shops that I go to regularly. They usually have an area where I can… — Bong Joon-ho Copy Share Image
Every writing teacher I ever had except for one told me I was an awful writer, had no idea what I was… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I prefer a much looser style. Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or… — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
“Happy the writer who, passing by characters that are boring, disgusting, shocking in their mournful reality, approaches characters that manifest the lofty… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“They have come dressed as robots or space goddesses or aliens because a writer has changed their lives.” — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too… — Anita Desai Copy Share Image
I love to read, and I don't believe that you have to finish one book before you start another. --Mallory Pike — Ann M. Martin Copy Share Image
It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and then write it sentence by sentence - no… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I was trying to make a novel about something no one wanted to read about into something they couldn't put down or… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen.… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
I learned to write with my desk in the living room, next to the TV. But mostly in my head, and I… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title. — Len Wein Copy Share Image
“A library after closing is a lonely place. It is heart-poundingly silent, and the rows of shelves create an almost unfathomable number… — Vicki Myron Copy Share Image
Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, there is a selflessness that has to happen; you have to have equity with how you treat each… — Natasha Rothwell Copy Share Image
Writing tips are like mini skirts. Sometimes they fit perfectly, sometimes they make you cry, and sometimes you can reuse the material… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a… — Marcel Theroux Copy Share Image
The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
As a writer, you should have a sticky soul; the act of continually taking things in should be as much a part… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself. — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“A house on the park. He'd seen it a million times. And now was in it. It smelled of man sweat and… — george saunders Copy Share Image
We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
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