My publisher is generous with deadlines, which are never set in stone. Some writers need that pressure, but I am more productive… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“But in those whom no necessity forces to turn Author, who merely write for fame, and have full leisure to polish their… — Matthew Lewis Copy Share Image
I take out my pen and paper. I'd write how much I love you. I'd write just what you make me do,… — Francine Chiar Copy Share Image
“Writing is my dream. From romance to dragons; fairies to fantasy worlds, this is where I live and play. Thanks be to… — Lisa Hannah Wells Copy Share Image
Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
One day you will take me completely out of myself, I'll do what the angels cannot do. Your eyelash will write on… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I have comedy chops. I guess you get lucky with good writing because I don't think I'm a comedian… — Michael Pena Copy Share Image
It's difficult for me to have a large story, a very large story - a novel is a large story. I'm used… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The High Divide, a novel about a family in peril, is haunting and tense but leavened by considerable warmth and humanity. Lin… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
If you're going to cheat and take people's history and you're not writing the Bible, you ain't really so great. But if… — James McBride Copy Share Image
The diversion of baiting an author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'Southeastern,' I'd just recently gotten sober. For me, that was a major turning point in my life. It… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a book about poverty that wasn't only about the poor. I was looking for some sort of narrative… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most… — John Clute Copy Share Image
“Will found it funny that people balked at paying retail price for a book, something that a writer poured his or her… — Sean Platt Copy Share Image
When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate. — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer? — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
When you're writing theology, you have to say everything all the time, otherwise people think you've deliberately missed something out. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
There has to be insight born of hindsight. Otherwise, you're only confessing your sins and asking the reader to forgive you. And… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The one thing Leonard won't tolerate is fancy prose. As he states in his 10 Rules of Writing: "If it sounds like… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
When you're an artist you're speaking about life, you're talking about your experience here on the planet. So essentially, that's what I… — Chrisette Michele Copy Share Image
Put a chair against the door, and turn the lights down low Write a letter to yourself, no one will ever know — Jann Arden Copy Share Image
There are lots of people who give their all and have that inner glow on. It's a shame that majority of them… — Esa Saarinen Copy Share Image
Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by… — Paul Bailey Copy Share Image
When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen. — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
“Intellectuals, freelance writers, investigative journalists, and midlist novelists are the analog to the family farmers, who have always struggled but simply can’t… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“The point I'm trying to make is that by recording my progress every day, I had the data I needed to start… — Rachel Aaron Copy Share Image
I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother… — Isabel Colegate Copy Share Image
While writing, I tend to repeat the same song, endlessly, for thousands of times. This helps me ignore any lyrics, and helps… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
