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Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book.

Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it.

Haruki Murakami

Nostalgia!" Miss Frost cried. "You´re nostalgic!" She repeated. "Just how old are you, William?" She asked."Seventeen, " I told her."Seventeen!" Miss Frost cried, as if she'd been stabbed. "Well, William Abbott, if you're nostalgic at seventeen, maybe you are going to be a writer!

John Irving

When I got up this morning the sea was full of sun pennies - and now it all seems to be covered in lemon scrim. Writers ought to live far inland or next to the city dump, if they are ever to get any work one. Or perhaps they need to be stronger-minded than I am.

Mary Ann Shaffer

Writers (my kind of writers: aspiring novelists, ruminative thinkers, people whose brains don't work quick enough to blog or link or tweet, basically old, stubborn blowhards) were through. We were like women's hat makers or buggy-whip manufacturers: Our time was done.

Gillian Flynn

A writer’s primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore’s is to make cents.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Harriet pushed her hair back and looked at him seriously. 'Sport, what are you going to be when you grow up?''You know what. You know I'm going to be a ball player.''Well, I'm going to be a writer. And when I say that's a mountain, that's a mountain.' Satisfied, she turned back to her town.

Louise Fitzhugh

A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them on paper.

Christy Hall

As you near a finish line, do not slow down. Instead, run faster. Give all you have left until it is done. It is then that you may collapse.

Christy Hall

According to my mother, I was a fiction writer before I'd written any ficton, by wich she meant not only that I invented things, or made things up, but that I prefered this kind of fantasising or pure imagining to what other people generally liked - she meant reality, of course.

John Irving

Writers should cut as close to the vein as possible. The readers don't want to be covered in your warm sticky blood, but they want to come as close to it as possible.

Robert Black

Don't be afraid of what you're creating.

Christy Hall

What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?

E.A. Bucchianeri

I know it's difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the world a favor, and write.

Christy Hall

Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two.

Shannon Celebi

Bootlicking is only a way to get published, not to become a writer

Himmilicious

It's hard to be a dreamer sometimes. I'm tired.

Christy Hall

Wine and a straitjacket. That pretty much sums it up.

Shannon Celebi

No.'It's not a bad word. And it is very important to use at times. Practice saying it in the mirror. It's empowering.

Christy Hall

I am swimming in a sea of words, attempting to keep my head above water.

Christy Hall

Life baffles me most days. Maybe that's why I write. To try and make sense of it all.

Christy Hall

I have written until I fell asleep with my computer on my lap. That can't be normal.

Christy Hall

You’ll have days of complete lack of faith in your abilities. But you have to keep coming back. That’s when you know you’re a writer – when you take the failures and appear at the desk again, over and over again.

Markus Zusak

The defining lines of reality have always been a bit blurred for me.

Christy Hall

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

Benjamin Jowett

I'm not gonna lie...sometimes this whole writing thing is a lonely business.

Christy Hall

Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days...it will demand absolutely everything of you.

Christy Hall

That moment you realize you are doing the right thing for the wrong reasons and the wrong thing for the right reasons.

Christy Hall

Nothing is louder than silence.

Christy Hall

I do not recommend writing a screenplay in two weeks.

Christy Hall

When a solid first draft of an original tale is complete...you feel as if you could do anything.

Christy Hall

Give all that you can. No more. No less. Every. Single. Day.

Christy Hall

I want to assure you with all earnestness, that no writing is a waste of time, – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good. It has stretched your understanding.

Brenda Ueland

Each big idea like that is an operating system upgrade," she says, smiling. Comfortable territory. "Writers are responsible for some of it. They say Shakespeare invented the internal monologue."Oh, I am very familiar with the internal monologue."But I think the writers had their turn," she says, "and now it's programmers who get to upgrade the human operating system."I am definitely talking to a girl from Google. "So what's the next upgrade?""It's already happening," she says. "There are all these things you can do, and it's like you're in more than one place at one time, and it's totally normal. I mean, look around."I swivel my head, and I see what she wants me to see: dozens of people sitting at tiny tables, all learning into phones showing them places that don't exist and yet are somehow more interesting...

Robin Sloan

I think there are writers who take a quieter approach to their work — one that is just about respectfully showing up for your vocation day after day, steadily doing your best, and letting go of the results. Not going to war against anyone else, or against their talents, or against themselves.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

Ian Hunter

Nothing leaves a scar upon an Authors heart more than a book they've written with purpose going unread.

Mark W Boyer

It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a hack. But even if you succeed, you lose, because you've sold out your Muse, and your Muse is you, the best part of yourself, where your finest and only true work comes from.

Steven Pressfield

Though I leave the house as little as possible, I have the impression that someone is disturbing my papers. More than once I have discovered that some pages were missing from my manuscripts. A few days afterward I would find the pages in their place again. But often I no longer recognize my manuscripts, as if I had forgotten what I had written, or as if overnight I were so changed that no longer recognized myself in the self of yesterday.

Italo Calvino

As long as music survives, poetry will never die.

Michael Bassey Johnson

You may think that you don't want to read about the problems of being brought up Mennonite, but the great thing about books is that you'll read anything a good writer wants you to read.

Nick Hornby

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say here and now that any unsolicited manuscripts or typescripts sent to me will be destroyed unread. You must make your way yourself. Why you should be so set on the nearly always disappointing profession is a puzzling question.

Kingsley Amis

Here was the world-famous novelist with her penchant for detail; yet, in her observations of a prostitute with a customer, she had failed to come away with the most important detail of all. She could never identify the murderer; she could barely describe him. She'd made a point of not looking at him!

John Irving

America takes her writers too seriously.

Kingsley Amis

Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see our creations come to life on the page. But it is those who choose to do something about this passion that has been ignited inside of them that are true writers.

Brian A. McBride

I don't want to write soft, easy fiction; I want to write fiction that challenges.

Brian A. McBride

The hack is like a politician who consults the polls before he takes a position. He's a demagogue. He panders.

Steven Pressfield

If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand.

Siri Hustvedt

Each night, I close my eyes and dream. In the morning, I open my eyes again, but the dreaming doesn't stop.

Christy Hall

Sometimes I dream so vividly, so expectantly, I wonder if I'm crazy...

Christy Hall

This is the strange life of books that you enter along as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you travel. If you succeed in the voyage, others enter after, one at a time, also alone, but in communion with your imagination, traversing your route. Books are solitudes where we meet.

Rebecca Solnit

I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or her welfare check.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

People can think only in images. If you want to be a philosopher, write novels.

Albert Camus

Write at a pace that doesn't surpass your creative flow. Don't be hasty; don't be sloppy. Don't forfeit impressive writing for an impressive word count. Because eventually it will all have to be edited, and you'll find that it is harder to make bad writing good than to make good writing better.

Richelle E. Goodrich

An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works.

Gaston Leroux

Our business is communication oftentimes through the medium of stories but our capacity has a far greater scope - to entertain certainly, but also to stimulate debate, to mark up changes and differences and that way, to maybe, just now and then, to change the world.

Sara Sheridan

Writers need each other.

Sara Sheridan

I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn.

Sara Sheridan

When a writer first begins to write, he or she feels the samefirst thrill of achievement that the young gambler or oboeplayer feels: winning a little, losing some, the gambler sees theglorious possibilities, exactly as the young oboist feels an indescribablethrill when he gets a few phrases to sound like realmusic, phrases implying an infinite possibility for satisfactionand self-expression. As long as the gambler or oboist is onlyplaying at being a gambler or oboist, everything seems possible.But when the day comes that he sets his mind on becoming a professional, suddenly he realizes how much there is to learn, how little he knows.

John Gardner

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