Inspirational Quote by Mark Vonnegut

Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that…

— Anonymous

Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common…

— Dan Simmons

Writing is tyranny ... but reading is democracy.

— Philip Pullman

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common…

— Dan Simmons

Writing is an antisocial act.

— Martha Grimes

Serving the reader by working cooperatively with the writer? Sometimes throwing 'the rules' out the window? Clearing the decks of pet peeves, mythical prohibitions…

— Craig Lancaster

“Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that…

— Mark Vonnegut

Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually…

— Craig Johnson

I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind.

— Emma Healey

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

— Mohsin Hamid

Writing is done alone. People do not talk about the things they do alone.

— Anneli Rufus

The business of writing is empathising with situations that aren't your own.

— Richard North Patterson