If someone does not see you as beautiful, this does not mean that you are not beautiful, but rather that they simply… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It's been said of writers that if we don't have to write, we ought not to.” — ChiLibris Copy Share Image
All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“Everyone now, not just writers, creates a written, published persona on a daily (hourly) basis. Artifice abounds.” — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction. — John Connolly Copy Share Image
A lot of times, directors don't know how to speak to actors, or writers don't know how to communicate. — Michael Mosley Copy Share Image
If one wants to go on living, one must evolve. Before, when we composed, we would start by a series of music… — Mitch Leigh Copy Share Image
“Writers use narratives to select from everything there is, and make contexts by putting the pieces into relation; that’s what writers do,… — Paul Shepheard Copy Share Image
“An unedited manuscript is a first draft of story; but is not a finished product. Too many writers study the craft of… — Michael J. Kannengieser Copy Share Image
The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us (for a brief period, at least) are, 99 times out of a hundred,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I do not set specific work hours as some writers do. I generally stay with a chapter until I am satisfied, do… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
I believe that writers run out of material, I really do. I believe very strongly in the fact that when the natural… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
“She was rare, few and far between She suspected he would be as well And the thought of two rare, few and… — Maquita Donyel Irvin Copy Share Image
I am really interested in the way we relate to time. In particular, the way readers and writers talk to each other.… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“For a writer, it seems a help rather than a hindrance to be at least a little crazy. Who but a crazy… — Leland Dirks Copy Share Image
“Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. They need at least a doctor who understands… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“The journey took about a week each way, and each day had my parents both in its grip. Riding behind my father,… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“It must take a lot of self-discipline,' she said. 'Oh, I don't know. I don't have much.' He felt himself about to… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
You're all alone when you're a writer. Sometimes you just feel you need a humanity bath. Even a ride on the subway… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
In a way all writers are writing against death, because writing is an attempt to defy the passage of time, to refuse… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
