Because all writers are human beings first and writers second, my guess is that any advice for living with a writer is… — Clyde Edgerton Copy Share Image
“The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease and intimacy with the process of writing; one comes to the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I think it's really boring, from the point of view of the novelist, to write about yourself. Tedious. But that's very hard… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I wish podcasting was my only job - I have more fun doing that than I have doing absolutely anything else. But… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
I know exactly what I want to write. I do not write until I do. Usually I write it all down only… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Books are what I escaped to when I was a kid, and books...unless they're just really piss poor, I get swept up… — Amber Benson Copy Share Image
I was writing for myself, not to be published. I was writing diaries, even letters, to myself or to anyone I was… — Katie Piper Copy Share Image
After I wrote my memoir, 'A Long Way Gone,' I was a bit exhausted. I didn't want to write another memoir; I… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
May I ask you something?" I say. "Why do you read books, when you could be outside, living a million different adventures… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Handwriting everything, for me, is psychologically useful because it keeps my writing economical. I think there are word processor styles emerging. Something… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
William Kowalski is the kind of storyteller you don’t see quite enough these days. The yarn spinner with a generous soul. The… — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
where I have seen good I shall speak of it with pleasure, and where I have seen the reverse, I shall try… — Isabel Burton Copy Share Image
There is a myth that writers get to choose their stories. You don't get to choose your story any more than you… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
I've written just about everything for the sake of putting shoes on the children's feet - and a bottle of gin in… — Ray Guy Copy Share Image
So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds,… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Behold, I am writing anew, through scribes on Earth who are willing to listen to me again with new ears, in the… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
I write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody's come up… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
“Fiction can, and should, mimic life, with all its messes and discomfort and disquiet. Fiction should also prove just how complicated and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift. — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
There are very few instances where writers have also been effective image makers - different skill sets are required. — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
“All of reading is really only finding ways to name ourselves, and, perhaps, to name the others around us so that they… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The experience you're going to take the audience on is as important as the story you're trying to tell. And that experience… — Sam Esmail Copy Share Image
“When you feel caught in the web of childhood abuse, find words to describe it. Write them. Say them. Express them. In… — Jeanne McElvaney Copy Share Image
You don't know what can happen tomorrow. Life is like a novel, isn't it? It's filled with suspense. You never know what's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
“Write a little. Read a little. Dick around on the internet. Post something to Pinterest or Facebook. Text a friend. Write some… — Katrina Monroe Copy Share Image
“Fans are to be greatly appreciated because without them, you're pretty much writing only for yourself.” — Bea Cannon Copy Share Image
The novelist can't successfully depict such horrifying reality. But she can, and must, try, to bear witness. There are many ways of… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Let's not pretend there isn't a huge industry driven by the choices made by editors and writers who decide what a story… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
“Your job as a writer is to say as truthfully as you can what you see and how you feel. Writing is… — Danelle Morton Copy Share Image
“ A Touch of Crimson will rock readers with a stunning new world, a hot-blooded hero, and a strong, kick-ass heroine. This… — Larissa Ione Copy Share Image
People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
