Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I start writing at 7.30 A.M. and write till noon. I've never written a single word after 5.00 P.M. — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
No one ever addresses the possibility that a writer might not like her book. — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
The biggest problem is that people want to tell the whole story, and they write letters that are way longer than anything… — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell him things that he would be unable to discover… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Not all fiction writers are evil, just the ones good at their job. After all, it's not a decent book if it… — Ellie Rose McKee Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to write something that you will need one all; I work on what will give continuous inspiration, I work… — ANIKOR Daniel Copy Share Image
I always call 'Billy Elliot' a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had… — Ellen Forney Copy Share Image
If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I think from a major-label perspective, if you were on the flip side of things and that's the world you were used… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
I am sure it has been done with less, but you should be prepared to write and throw away a million words… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
I'm often quite gloomy about the prospects for the human future. But, although I have no competence to intervene directly in a… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one:… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
There are, occasionally, writers who are able to combine both story and style. They are, of course, the best. You get a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've only had a sit-down encounter with Robert once, and that one conversation was the best advice that I have gotten from… — K.Michelle Copy Share Image
