Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It's the writing, not the being read, that excites me. Joy is in the doing. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Anybody can lead a frivolous life. A frivolous writer, however, must have taste and intelligence. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Younger writers and smaller writers need to live and get by. They need to be paid. It has to be fair. — Nicola Roberts Copy Share Image
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. ” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I think that what's unique about sci-fi - at least from the view of a lot of Chinese writers - is that… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I do enjoy the form of things. I enjoy finding the form that seems best to fit what I'm thinking about. I… — Caryl Churchill Copy Share Image
In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable. — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
What I found so captivating about the idea of being a writer was having the ability to write down all these things… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
Don't be scared of 'said.' Writers sometimes go looking for alternatives because they worry that 'he said' and 'she said' will feel… — Tana French Copy Share Image
I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I sometimes think if I did not write I would be a madwoman. Now I am a sane woman with a lot… — Kendall Hailey Copy Share Image
I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys.… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
I try to gauge whether a girl likes me before I make a move. I would write a page-long note to a… — Devon Werkheiser Copy Share Image
When I was writing Love and Lies, I was going over a lot of my old notes to see if there were… — Clancy Martin Copy Share Image
I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
There are a couple of writers I admired who were very good at giving the character's emotion without stating what that emotion… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
I’ve always liked to read about extremely wealthy people, especially when they are crazy (like Howard Hughes or Caligula.) While writing this… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
As a young writer, I was sort of sailing around trying to 'find my voice' - for lack of a better term… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy, I've always written horror stories and monster… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
