“Every writer in this book has a slightly different process, but they all start with the same thing: a blank page.” — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“Their conversation ceased abruptly with the entry of an oddly-shaped man whose body resembled a certain vegetable. He was a thickset fellow… — Jeff Phillips Copy Share Image
“Writers often have the cleanest windows, floors, fridges and toilets, the most up-to-date filing system or the best record for returning calls… — Mark David Gerson Copy Share Image
I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Just as readers often turn into writers, novel-writers often become novel-reviewers. — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
“NEWSPAPER: What great paper is the Earth; what a typeface is the Day; what ink is the Night! – Everyone prints, everyone… — Xavier Forneret Copy Share Image
I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William… — Tahmoh Penikett Copy Share Image
I noticed I had developed a fantasy about myself as a writer as opposed to actually doing it [so] I finally summoned… — Leslie Dixon Copy Share Image
“Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe was killed by a man whom he was treacherously trying to stab.… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
“A writer is not born but made through study and sheer willpower and ability to embrace beauty and agony.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“If you can't write a book, write a chapter. If you can't do that, write a page, a sentence or a word.… — Tarun Betala Copy Share Image
“Ruth Cole was a novelist; novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“What these critics forget is that printing presses in themselves provide no guarantee of an enlightened outcome. People, not machines, made the… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Writers, especially those of us with roots in other countries, are rarely left to ourselves. We are asked to declare our allegiances,… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him… — Vin Scully Copy Share Image
“You will always find me writing and reading as long as I have the breath of life within me.” — K.D. Green Copy Share Image
“The quality of any author’s effort at personal writing and thematic commentary hinges upon the author’s intrinsic limitations, personal vantage point, and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
