“ The books—the generous friends who met me without suspicion—the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, t… Wilkie Collins
“ You read a book for the story, for each of its words," Gordy said, "and you draw your cartoons for the story, for each of the words and images. And, yeah, you need to take that seriously, but you shou… Sherman Alexie
“ Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. John Wesley
“ When Suzie introduced Helen, she told the audience that one of the best things about books is that they are an interactive art form: that while the author may describe in some detail how a character l… Elizabeth Berg
“ It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, all of me—and then the books themselves inform the sense of what I am. So the more I can be, the better the books will be. Jeanette Winterson
“ The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your ideas? Neil Gaiman
“ Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history not because they had massive brows and thought deep inc… Stephen Fry
“ The internet is killing the art of writing. The big "publish" button begs you to publish even before you go back and make one single edit, and as if this was not enough, you have instant readers who p… Bangambiki Habyarimana
“ Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge. We're not here to be comfortable—we're here, really, to shake things up. That's our job. Jeanette Winterson
“ All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are Niall Williams
“ I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible the world has written its own. Dejan Stojanovic
“ I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy one. There is a myth that writers are bohemian and do what they like in their o… Jeanette Winterson
“ If you’re a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become wonderful. To become the best writer you can possibly be. Theodora Goss
“ Write all the time. I believe in writing every day, at least a thousand words a day. We have a strange idea about writing: that it can be done, and done well, without a great deal of effort. Dancers p… Theodora Goss
“ That's why I've just gone on … collecting this particular kind of stuff – what you might call riff-raff. There's not a book here, Lawford, that hasn't at least a glimmer of the real thing in it – just… Walter de la Mare
“ But once an original book has been written-and no more than one or two appear in a century-men of letters imitate it, in other words, they copy it so that hundreds of thousands of books are published… Pierre Boulle
“ All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One… George Orwell
