The most important thing for any aspiring writer, is to read! And not just the sort of thing you're trying to write,… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced… — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
Scholarship cannot do without literature… It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race,… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a… — Bryan Burrough Copy Share Image
...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I used to be a good story writer. I could make up a story with like, eight people in it and tell… — Danielle Bregoli Copy Share Image
I was 35 when I started writing Shadow and Bone,' and my only goal was to finish a book because I had… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
Sajib: That's a good point. I find mslyef passing on novels over 400 pages these days. There's just not enough time. Thank… — Arman Copy Share Image
The biggest pitfall to avoid is not writing. Not writing is really, really easy to do, especially if you're a young writer.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Question of the day: Two Indie authors publish their first books which are true to form, statistical failures. There are over a… — Amber Garibay Copy Share Image
These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I might spend 100 pages trying to get to know the world I'm writing about: its contours, who are my main characters,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
I look at my first books and am glad they weren't published… You start writing by imitating your heroes, then you keep… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I don't plan anything out, and I don't write in chronological order. The emotional tenor is what guides me, but a lot… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
My favorite writer on 'The X-Files' is this guy Darin Morgan. He wrote my favorite episode and the top five favorite episodes… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
...for the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching...by most Friday afternoons I felt as if… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
“Tolstoi made the writing of Stephen Crane on the Civil War seem like the brilliant imagining of a sick boy who had… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love to read the kind of books I write. Genre-breaking. Fresh-concept. World-building. My all-time top three authors would have to be… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy. — Henry James Copy Share Image
I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
When I write, I normally write anywhere that I can feel at peace, so if it's in my bedroom, if it's at… — Little Simz Copy Share Image
Wolf Boy is absolutely beguiling. Evan Kuhlman has boundless empathy for all his characters, and his wonderful protagonist Stephen is, in turn,… — Valerie Sayers Copy Share Image
“People are laughing at me today for having holes in my pockets, and ink blood on my fingers- a thirty-something old writer,… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The Bibliotheque du Roi then gives you the closest thing that currently exists to God's understanding of the world." "And yet with… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
When I write my novels I don't really have a huge plan beforehand; I don't have the whole plot and architecture, so… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
I had never thought about writing a novel. But I had two young kids, and I realized that if I could write… — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
I do try to plot about a chapter ahead once I get going. I have a list of upcoming scenes with little… — Pamela Clare Copy Share Image
Writing is a demanding profession and a selfish one. And because it is selfish and demanding, because it is compulsive and exacting,… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
While writing, you are more interested in seeing what happens with you in the process, because all that writing is just you… — Oz Perkins Copy Share Image
“He liked bookstores, and libraries too. They had a sacred, peaceful hush, like graveyards without the shadow of death.” — Garrett Leigh Copy Share Image
“Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
