The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer. And the joy of writing, when you're writing from… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
There is freedom in being a writer and writing. It is fulfilling your function. I used to think freedom meant doing whatever… — Natalie Copy Share Image
Usually, when you're talking about work with other writers it's because something seriously bad is going on with your work and you've… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I often said that writers are of two types. There is the architect, which is one type. The architect, as if designing… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
What I would most like to think they would take away, is what I take away when I read my favorite books.… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Which is a wonderful irony, I have property there. I go back every chance I get. One of the main reasons I… — Sela Ward Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, you know there are ways in which we don't know what we're doing at all. We're working out… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“There is a problem with writers. If what a writer wrote was published and sold many, many copies, the writer thought he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even with an assignment, I take over, I find a freedom and make the idea my own, and that's where you get… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
Writers are given the responsibility of sight. I think that the whole burden, responsibility and beauty of the gift forces us to… — Alexis De Veaux Copy Share Image
People who write books - they live in their own world as they're writing. But people who are doing shows or big… — Mike White Copy Share Image
A woman at a bookstore in Brattleboro, Vt., put Castle Freeman Jr.'s novel 'Go With Me' in my hand, and I took… — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
I do less of that stuff now because I figured out that when I was writing things I didn't care about, it… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
I have advice for new writers, first of all, at any time in the history of publishing in my experience, there will… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The space is appropriately shoe-boxy and all the shelves are there. I've set them up with a coordinate system, so my program… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“I honestly think in order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing?… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
In addition to exploring imaginative worlds, I believe that young people should have access to reading material that validates their life, that… — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now; far happier… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline. If you really want to write, then shut yourself… — Mary Garden Copy Share Image
My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into… — Mae Whitman Copy Share Image
Your writing is still yours, no matter what the contract or your editor might say. Trust your gut. It knows when you're… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
“I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, “Do not worry. You have always written before and… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I'm not a natural writer like, let's say - I'm not talking about Arthur Miller; that's a whole other thing - but… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
I wake at 5 or 5:30 most mornings, make myself a latte and grab a cookie, write until 10 or 11, go… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I don't like to think in terms of writing ten or twelve pages a day. Usually I'm writing a scene, and it's… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
I would say just start writing. You've got to write every day. Copy someone that you like if you think that perhaps… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“It is the case that, albeit to a lesser extent, all fictions make their readers live "the impossible", taking them out of… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I wish my prose to be transparentI don't want the reader to stumble over me; I want him to look through what… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I had never written about what it's like to live the life of a writer, and I had never read a book… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
“When you've got creative momentum, the last thing you want to do is stop. I'd write and write and wake up with… — Kate Inglis Copy Share Image
All writers have strengths and weaknesses. I am terrified of being boring, so I write short, compressed stories that sometimes don't give… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
Maybe it goes without saying that if you want to become a famous writer before you’re dead, you’ll have to write something.… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
“No reader can fail to agree that the number of books she needs to read far exceeds her capacities, but when the… — Patricia Meyers Spacks Copy Share Image
I believe in the writer's mission. He receives it from the word, which carries its suffering and its hope within it. He… — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
“What are they like, writers, in your mind: it may seem strange, but initially it’s not about writing. A writer is someone… — Christian Bobin Copy Share Image
Writing isn't just a job that stops at six thirty... It's a mad, sexy, sad, scary, ruthless, joyful, and utterly, utterly personal… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
