We write when the time comes, and we try to be exciting, and stuff that excites us usually makes the record. — M. Shadows Copy Share Image
“How could filling in a bunch of blanks and writing a fluffy essay about the 'moment of significance' in my life let… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
A writer can write an essay, but the writer can never control how that essay is interpreted by the reader. — Tyler Childers Copy Share Image
“But maybe I’d need something to read on my ride to my future, I thought. I could borrow a few of the… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but… — Paul Scofield Copy Share Image
The world has changed, the CIA is having to change, and again, the challenge for someone like me as a spy novelist… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
I'm not ever getting a Pulitzer prize and my books aren't on high school reading lists, but for better or worse I'm… — Carole Radziwill Copy Share Image
If I could get someone like John Grisham or someone like that to sit down and write a book with me, I'd… — Keith Jackson Copy Share Image
I think some authors suffer from a need to try to prove that they're clever and educated. I try not to suffer… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
For years, I sort of would try to write a story that somehow fit the title. And I don't think it happened… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Taking the time to write in our lives gives us the time of our lives. As we describe our environments, we begin… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“I collect new books the way my friends collect designer handbags. Sometimes, I just like to know I have them and actually… — Jennifer Kaufman Copy Share Image
There's a sureness to good writing even when what's being written about doesn't make all that much sense. It's the sureness of… — Anne Bernays Copy Share Image
“Often we feel the need to say that a book isn’t just about a particular time or place but is about the… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“I leaned forward with my elbows on my knees and her book in my hands. Like a lot of things in my… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
If you are going to be a writer, you have to have self-belief, every writer gets rejections, they say the difference between… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I have finally perfected my signature. It took hours of practicing I decided early on just to write Pippa, not Middleton. — Pippa Middleton Copy Share Image
In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Writing isn't manual labor. Nor is it emptying the dishwasher or paying bills. It's work, sure, but sometimes it should be fun. — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
Authenticity does matter, but only as it serves the novel's more traditional literary demands: that the fault lines be drawn where the… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
If something is well-written, it has a chance to be good and if it's not well-written, it will not be good. It… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
“This was the doorway to the heart of the Great Keep. The one place any son of Lila Jane Evers Wate would… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
As a writer, you have a huge ego. You think that every line means something to everybody the same way it means… — Pusha T Copy Share Image
Well, so far, at least, my own ideas always take priority over those of other writers. As long as the well doesn't… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
By then The Kite Runner had become quite successful and I found myself in a position that I had always dreamed of… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority. — Callie Khouri Copy Share Image
When the writing is good and it suits your character, you don't have to memorize anything, because it just makes sense. You… — Amy Hill Copy Share Image
I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The worst book in the world is one that you didn't understand well. The best book in the world is one that… — Alan Leddon Copy Share Image
Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I have rituals for cleaning out resentments, disappointments, heartbreak, depression and for work. One of the things I do is go over… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
{_ Do not expect me to something different view of writing., What can I do, which is found I in the form… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week. — M.J. Rose Copy Share Image
I worked with Michael Bay on 'Transformers,' and I got to work with the writer of 'Transformers,' who's this really great guy… — Jennifer Konner Copy Share Image
“It has always been a great comfort to me that I could bring a book anywhere, to any place. To any part… — Anton DiSclafani Copy Share Image
I write because I'm a writer. It is rather like cooking: to make something out of the raw material at hand. — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
