So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Writing is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time. The process of expressing yourself about a… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
I'm a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a novelist. A lot of… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
…a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“So I write thoughts and emotions Taking birth in words And dying unsung in words! Words stitched together To give meaning to… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
The book is an experience that allows you to witness your feelings without having to surrender to them, to succumb to them,… — Michael Silverblatt Copy Share Image
I guess I think I'm writing for people who are smarter than I am, because then I'll be doing something that's worth… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a… — Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
Pleasure reading has long been an American ideal - generations of schoolchildren have headed home for the summer toting recreational reading lists.… — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
“Just as breathing exercises help integrate body and mind, writing is a kind of psycho-neural muscular activity which helps bridge and integrate… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
...Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides white rapids in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“His little sister is brilliant. She is at her desk deep in a book, half-opened books all over her desk, all over… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“ Books — the warm, leather-skinned weight of them in your hands, the way they smelled when you lifted them close to… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
“job and Career Information Services Committee of the Adult Lifelong Learning Section of the Public Library Division of the American Library Association… — Public Library Association Copy Share Image
There’s only one difference between published and unpublished writers, and it is this -- the first group see their work in print… — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
“So I recommend reading literature, such as the inspiring biography of Anwar Sadat, In Search of Identity, and seeing movies like Chariots… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
I do have a little bit more confidence in - or at least familiarity with - my process. For example, when it… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
I always carry a notepad with me, even on vacation. If I'm on the computer when the story 'hits', I open a… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
It starts with the writer-it's a familiar dictum, but somehow it keeps getting forgotten along the way. No film-maker, irrespective of his… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I read," I say. "I study and read. I bet I've read everything you read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I'm looking for a writer who doesn't know where the sentence is leading her; a writer who starts with her obsessions and… — Sy Safransky Copy Share Image
There's no subject you don't have permission to write about. Students often avoid subjects close to their heart ... because they assume… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I think art, especially literature, has the particular power to immerse the viewer or reader into another world. This is especially powerful… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see… — Brian A. McBride Copy Share Image
Here's the first major lesson: Writing is not an activity. It's not something you sit down at the keyboard, and just start… — Jeff Bollow Copy Share Image
it is not unusual to hate great writers before we learn to love them. Because they have created something that did not… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“I refused to have bookshelves, horrified that I'd feel compelled to organise the books in some regimented system - Dewey or alphabetical… — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them… — Isabel Allende 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
"It’s not as if I don’t have anything to read; there’s a tower of perfectly good unread books next to my bed,… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
“There would seem to be four stages in the composition of a story. First comes the germ of the story, then a… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
There have been days where I've had two writers' rooms or three writers' rooms going, and you walk back and forth. And… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
I think the most important lesson isn't necessarily to try and write a different book every time, or to try and brand… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
A deeply felt novel . . . The Story of Forgetting offers us both solace and illumination. Stefan Merrill Block possesses a… — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Copy Share Image
I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather;… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Hemingway studied, as models, the novels of Knut Hamsun and Ivan Turgenev. Isaac Bashevis Singer, as it happened, also chose Hamsun and… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
