When my books came out, they started selling but they started selling at a relatively consistent but low pace. And they started… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting. — Jakucho Setouchi Copy Share Image
I've always read, I've always admired writers and was lucky really to meet some extraordinary ones and become friends. Certain times you… — David Salle Copy Share Image
When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“What is so addictive about fiction is that it is the one reliable place in which we can apprehend and participate in… — Rick Gekoski Copy Share Image
I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions And I'm giving you a longing look Everyday, everyday, everyday I… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
If you write for God you will reach many men and bring them joy. If you write for men--you may make some… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Prisoner's Wife echoes Edwidge Danticat's Farming of the Bones in the urgency in which it reminds us of the possibility of… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“As I write this, I am making a conscious, deliberate effort to be as clear as I possibly can and minimize any… — Ali A. Rizvi Copy Share Image
The first thing a writer has to do is find another source of income. Then, after you have begged, borrowed, stolen or… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
Henry Miller is a famous writer whose work has fallen out of fashion, but I strongly recommend that readers who don't know… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Has anybody ever written a horror pop-up book? The center of the book pops up and opens the gate to the elder… — Neil Leckman Copy Share Image
it is my conviction that the personality of the writer has nothing to do with the literate product of his mind. And… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
I'm lucky in the sense that I can write wherever I am - on the bus, in the hotel room, backstage, sitting… — Passenger Copy Share Image
Kabuki is the way that I so often write; Noh is how I would write if I were more 'spiritual,' more understated,… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I have a very basic notion of the structure the book might have - that's mostly it. The rest is luck and… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
I always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There's plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas. — Lemmy Copy Share Image
If somebody takes the time, a: to read a book that I have written, and then to b: care about it enough… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I write a lot, and then forget what I've written, and then come back to it and say, "Not bad, I should… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Writing is an act of empathy. You are occupying and understanding a point of view that might be alien to your own--and… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I write because it's my way of finding cool ideas, thinking through hard problems and things I don't understand, and getting better… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward. — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
Another thing that's good about writing to describe a situation or a state of consciousness is that you can finally get it… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
I don't know anything but writing practice, and so what I really do is direct that energy as if it were flowing… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
You can write a letter with a typewriter, a pencil, or a crayon. What you have to say is the important thing. — Paul Strisik Copy Share Image
I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going… — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
I write to escape from my life. Writing about men separates 'me' from my work in a way that I find comforting. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality. — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
“Good, I haven't written anything in two weeks except what I've written in my journal. And that is good? What kind of… — Dora Okeyo Copy Share Image
The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller. — Steve Leveen Copy Share Image
“For me, books were not the containers of words so much as the words themselves, and the value of a given book… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent,… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
“Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
