Every book has got its challenges. You run into a plot point that you can't figure out, or a scene that you… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Since I was the stupidest kid in my class, it never occurred to me to try and be perfect, so I've always… — Stephen J. Cannell Copy Share Image
“To write a novel, you begin with what you can see and then you add what came before and what came after.” — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
Tomorrow morning the critic will be gone, but the writer will still be there facing the blank page. Nothing matters but that… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I wanted to be the writer in the room setting depth charges of feeling out the world with my language.You know, I… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
“Whether you know it or not, your desire to write comes from the urge to not just be “creative,” it’s a need… — Shawn Coyne Copy Share Image
I'm totally active. I am just this side of hyper. I jog and go to the gym every day. When I'm on… — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
“There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I don't think you should write something as long as a novel around anything that is not of the gravest concern to… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Your freedom as a writer is not freedom of expression in the sense of wild blurting; you may not let rip. It… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Perhaps I shall not write my account of the Paleolithic at all, but make a film of it. A silent film at… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
The more you read, the better you are at writing, no matter what you're writing. A lot of songwriters miss that and… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
When you are writing something that is false and presenting it as a fact without confirming... I feel it's extremely wrong. — Shraddha Kapoor Copy Share Image
I live in the middle of nowhere and I'm an insomniac. I just make the time and I read and write really… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
They ask me what I'd like written about me when I'm gone. I hope they write I made Penn State a better… — Joe Paterno Copy Share Image
You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
My best writing is not outside of the beat. I'm 99 percent influenced by the beat first, and then the words just flow. — Ari Lennox Copy Share Image
“And I've learned to hit the brakes at these kinds of stop signs rather than t-boning a tanker truck filled with 200… — Benjamin Kane Ethridge Copy Share Image
I just want to write fun, interesting music that pushes boundaries and is still true to myself. I want people to feel… — Julia Michaels Copy Share Image
Got a long list of ex-lovers, they'll tell you I'm insane. But I got a blank space baby, and I'll write your… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Nobody can take what I love away from me. I would like to believe that love is the only energy I've ever… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
The thing I worry about is, what happens when your talent flees? Because you see that with writers sometimes: they start writing… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“I'm tired of the anonymity of being an unpublished author. I crave the anonymity of being self-published.” — Tristan Durie Copy Share Image
Writers are always envious, mean-minded, filled with rage and envyat other's good fortune. There is nothing like the failure of a close… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“There is a time to stop reading, there is a time to STOP trying to WRITE, there is a time to kick… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning. — Phyllis A. Whitney Copy Share Image
Nick Fear was just a ridiculous name I'd been kicking around when thinking about writing some detective stories. — Nick Searcy Copy Share Image
“I’ve had a fountain pen surgically implanted in my left index finger to save trouble. My body is tattooed with line upon… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
“For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
First and foremost, if you want to be a good writer, you need to be a good eater. You need to be… — Melissa Leong Copy Share Image
If I'm doing my job right, then I'm not writing the dialogue; the characters are saying the dialogue, and I'm just jotting… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
It's nice to have awards from time to time. There was a time when I had to make a living from my… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
The more prose I wrote, the more the pendulum swung back toward the middle, merging some poetic sensibilities with the more fundamental… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
