When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The choices that bedevil the writer bedevil the translator ten times over.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in… — Richard Harding Davis Copy Share Image
I write about race in America in hopes of undermining the notion of race in America. — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
It's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you now just to see if you're better. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch… — Nell Leyshon Copy Share Image
New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
Part of the impetus for my writing is the pain I've seen my friends experience both in their marriage and in their… — Peter D. Kramer Copy Share Image
“I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.” — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“This writing doesn't affect reality any more than any writing does; that is to say, indirectly, but considerably.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I do love the prose poem because it's such a perverse and provocative little box - always asking to be questioned, never… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Once, lovers on faraway shores sat by candlelight and dipped ink to parchment, writing words that could not be erased. They took… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Suppose a would-be writer can't begin? I really believe there are many excellent writers who have never written because they never could… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
I never question the way I write. Writing is the only thing that's without seams for me. It's an effort to talk… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Sometimes I eavesdrop on people. I could rationalize it - oh, this is good anthropological research for characters I'm writing - but… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
When I was younger I used to get my best writing done at night, but now it has to be during the… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a relationship that I didn't… — Evan Glodell Copy Share Image
When I was writing the Destiny's Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
Somebody said, "Well, you're going to write your definitive book about your life, biography." No, I'm not. I haven't done that. I… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
“We don't read and write poetry because it is cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human… — Tom Schulman Copy Share Image
Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At school I was really heavily dyslexic, so I really struggled academically with reading and writing. — Freya Ridings Copy Share Image
I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“A writer's life and work are not a gift to humankind; they are its necessity.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity. — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
When anything important has to be written ... I think your hand concentrates for you. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Good writing isn’t a science. It’s an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.” — Thomas M. Cirignano Copy Share Image
“Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread.” — Janet Wallach Copy Share Image
