This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists... by spending time alone practicing what they love. — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
There is a tendency for writers to be most exciting by whatever they just wrote. Sometimes that excitement is warranted. Sometimes on… — Stone Gossard Copy Share Image
I don't like to hurt people's feelings, and I don't like to knock other writers as a matter of principle. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers - as many different responses as there are readers.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“You do not need to be temperamental or upset to be a novelist. Don’t embrace the tortured artist rhetoric that any life… — Bryant A. Loney Copy Share Image
I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate. — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained. — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity." [ Letter to Max Brod , July 5, 1922]” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
ABC's intelligently hilarious sitcom 'Modern Family' depicts a gay-male marriage in which both partners are refreshingly dimensional, believable human beings. The writers… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
Most open letters undoubtedly come from a good place, rising out of genuine outrage or concern or care. There is, admittedly, also… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
When it comes to writers, I'm a huge fan of Ian McEwan. I've never taken a writing course, but reading and deconstructing… — Deborah Copaken Kogan Copy Share Image
Other writers know what you're going through, what you're talking about when you write. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I saw the poet in you when it was obvious that your type of women were all broken and were those who… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen, and my favorite writers of short fiction… — Emily Perkins Copy Share Image
Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable. — Saul David Copy Share Image
I'm in my happy place when I'm sitting in my room, alone. The only light coming from my laptop. The sound of… — Universalclockwork Copy Share Image
“Each big idea like that is an operating system upgrade," she says, smiling. Comfortable territory. "Writers are responsible for some of it.… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“It takes great courage to write great books. Find your courage and find your voice.” — Kristen Lamb Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, I find that writers are treated as if they are invisible, as if they don't matter. — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
