“I said I was an English major, that I wanted to write someday, that I read the way other people ate chocolate.” — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are writers, and there are readers who want something more. They want to get at the grist of life. — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
I start to think, and then I sink Into the paper like I was ink When I'm writing, I'm trapped in between… — Rakim Copy Share Image
Perhaps I'm just too painstaking a type of person, but I can't grasp much of anything without putting down my thoughts in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person;… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“I would give a hundred Hemingways for one Stendhal or one Benjamin Constant. And I regret the influence of this literature on… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I tend to write about people on the edge who are pushing things out from the edge but who are not necessarily… — Lawrence Weschler Copy Share Image
“My quick-summoned first love—how everything was enough because I knew so little but felt cramped with certainty—is, I’m afraid, just like writing.… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Write what you want to read. The person you know best in this world is you. Listen to yourself. If you are… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
I am bigger and stronger than ever. My Chen Taiji and health regimen has served me well all of these years, thanks… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
“Why Have Formal Documents? First, writing the decisions down is essential. Only when one writes do the gaps appear and the inconsistencies… — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Copy Share Image
“I should write a serious book on China. If I did that and put in a lot of subtext about love and… — Jesse James Freeman Copy Share Image
As a young woman, Ama Ata Aidoo the freedom fighter vowed never to write love stories. Let’s delight in the fact that… — Amina Mama Copy Share Image
Whatever they do, criminals and non-criminals act in particular ways. Some writers, for instance, use computers, others pen and paper. Some write… — Ronald Kessler Copy Share Image
The best kind of writing, and the biggest thrill in writing, is to suddenly read a line from your typewriter that you… — Larry L. King Copy Share Image
“What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
“I'm not looking to be a Big Mac and fries author a la King. I'm aiming at filet mignon and steamed zucchini.” — LK Hunsaker Copy Share Image
A book is so much a part of oneself that in delivering it to the public one feels as if one were… — Quentin Bell Copy Share Image
“Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I could never do just one thing, but everything I do is in the direction of stories. Sometimes writing them, sometimes showcasing… — Damian Barr Copy Share Image
With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I would like my book to give people insight to the war before and after, but I don't think anyone could read… — Asne Seierstad Copy Share Image
“I think I've lost my faith and I can't stop writing because I don't know how much longer I can hold on.” — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
“If I believed people who told me you can't make a living as a writer, I wouldn't be making a living as… — William Meikle Copy Share Image
The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
“In the story of life, the prologue and epilogue are written by God. Yet the plot has been given to us; therefore… — James D. Maxon Copy Share Image
Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go. — Douglas A. Lawson Copy Share Image
The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical. — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
I've been writing since 1973. I've written nonfiction things of that nature, but I'm probably best known for crime fiction and, to… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
A writer just speaks from his heart, mind and soul. They are the conscience keepers of the society. They are the keepers… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a whole book of poetry written by a woman with sucidial ideation, borderline personality disorder, major depression and who is… — Sue E Cidal Copy Share Image
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
