“Living life distracts from writing. Writing distracts from living life. Therein lies the conundrum.” — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, you don't want to live in a comfortable place. — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
Education is not simply to learn to read and write. It's emancipation. It makes you free. — Ziauddin Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Ir you're a writer, reading is part of your job description. ~ Mark Rubinstein” — Mark Rubinstein Copy Share Image
For as long as I can remember, I have written songs because I wanted to, because I was experiencing something that couldn't… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
People had been writing to me and saying, "Can you write something for children?" I felt I couldn't quite do it myself… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
We should put pressure on power and write the truth and write relentlessly and fearlessly. That's the job. — David Remnick Copy Share Image
I'm not much interested in my own self when I write. I'm interested in what I observe out there, what's going on… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
On 'Stranger Than Fiction,' the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was just such brilliant writing… — Marc Forster Copy Share Image
Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
Not to say that the process assumes anything of "greater" or "lesser" importance, though: it's just more graphic information. Take the surrealists,… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
Writing a book is like torture that you don't know, but after it's done and there it is. It's a joy like… — Harry Crews Copy Share Image
There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
No self-respecting feminist could argue with the claim that the novel is more likely to accept existing power structures than not. But… — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
When I began writing these pages I believed their subject to be children, the ones we have and the ones we wish… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I try to make the voice in my head come out onto the page. I try to make it much more conversational… — James Frey Copy Share Image
“The words are few, and the sentence short; no one in Scripture so short. But it fareth with Sentences as with coynes… — Lancelot Andrewes Copy Share Image
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought! — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about being an American writer is you've got this vastness to draw from. — David Means Copy Share Image
“Read as widely and as deeply as you can. You have to be a reader before you can be a writer.” — Y.S. Lee Copy Share Image
Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
“When you’re a writer, the cure for whatever ails you is always writing.” — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
