“He was giving her the most important thing he could, the only way he knew how. He was a professor, a lover… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“Ellen looked around the room with an odd expression, for the first few seconds not taking in the collection spread across the… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
You can't write a children's book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
“Are they not criminals, books that have wasted our time and sympathy; are they not the most insidious enemies of society, corrupters,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“One of the speed reading techniques: Developing the skill of reading and researching by reading under the pressure of time, which means… — Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi Copy Share Image
Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“I'm an alien in my own world, a writer without words, a musician without a piano, a magician without a wand. I… — Nema Al-Araby Copy Share Image
I've been asked to write a book several times; I've had several publishers come to me and offer me book deals. Especially… — Mike Portnoy Copy Share Image
“My salvation is to let all this roll over me, to write, write and write some more. To hammer keys until I… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I think persistence in the face of adversity is an essential part of a writer’s job description. If you don’t care enough… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends,… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“When I was with him, I felt like a book worth reading all the way through again and again and again. Sure,… — Candice Raquel Lee Copy Share Image
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
I am a regular, if not exactly enthusiastic, patron of my local bookshop. I try to buy at least some books there… — Will Self Copy Share Image
My writing goal is just this desperation to get as much done as possible. It's never a comfortable, relaxed thing. Especially because… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“Writing a personal essay or memoir addresses how a person thinks and behaves in the context of society’s prevailing moral and ethical… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I view askance a book that remains undisturbed for a year. Oughtn't it to have a ticket of leave? I think I… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Arnold Rampersad's stunningly revealing biography has, at long last, unveiled-in magisterial prose-the very complex and vulnerable man behind Ralph Ellison's own masks… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I'm a writer. That's who I am, at my core. I'm a writer, and then I learned production and administration, along the… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The book is not simply the object that one holds in one's hands, and it cannot remain within the little parallelpiped that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
You have to keep writing. It's almost like practice, almost like tennis, that actually after a few days of not writing, first… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Every author believes that the book which he is placing before the public will 'fill a long-felt want,' and success or failure… — Will C. Barnes Copy Share Image
“My books have all been very deeply felt. You don’t spend eight years of your life working on a trendy knockoff. In… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
One of the ways in which writers most show their inventiveness is in the things they tell us about how they write.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
For me, there's nothing better than getting immersed in a sprawling, epic, multi-generational family saga, and 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
Since the purpose of reading, of education, is to become good, our most important task is to choose the right books. Our… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I'm trying to access my subconscious and turn off my conscious brain. I use my conscious for research, but… — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
You want to be a writer? A writer is someone who writes every day, so start writing. You don't have a job?… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
“All they're trying to do is tell you what they're like, and what you're like—what's going on—what the weather is now, today,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I've often made revisions at that stage that turned out to be mistakes because I wasn't really in the rhythm of the… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
When people ask for book recommendations, I say this: Do some math. If you read one book every week for the rest… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
You come out of the gate, you've got something new, you're subversive, nobody's ever done it before. But by your fifth novel… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
Beginning writers are often advised to 'write what you know,' and since I knew about quilters - their quirks, their inside jokes,… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
I went back into the older stories and reworked them, because I became a better writer over the years and could spot… — Tom Barbash Copy Share Image
