Keeping a journal has taught me that there is not so much new in your life as you sometimes think. When you… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
So often we think, well, kids learn to read at school, I don't have to be responsible for that. But in fact… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Without any reading time in class, too much homework, and little choice provided in reading material or writing topics, Sarah keeps her… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
“To publish in the sense of making a book available to the public is easy – and never easier than it is… — John B. Thompson Copy Share Image
I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively ... For words… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I take some pains to learn the material beforehand. I have a bunch of tricks I use to try and hit the… — Colm Feore Copy Share Image
If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I think in some ways, acting and writing are the same. You're getting inside the skin of someone else; you're creating their… — Finn Wittrock Copy Share Image
Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties -- one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I want to give just a slight indication of the influence the book has had. I knew that George Orwell , in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Actually I'd always thought he sat in the library with a slim volume of metaphysical poetry until the commissioner called him on… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
Before you can become a writer, you have to be a reader, and a reader of everything, at that. To the best… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'm not saying don't do the work you got, but instead of this two hours of watching TV at the hotel lobby… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
I always loved strange stories like the Dr. Seuss stuff. 'Go, Dog. Go!' was one of my favorite stories - it still… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
Fiction is an easy way to talk about issues: I think it feels less preachy. You can have the students discuss characters… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“Every day, librarians enforce copyright policies that we may disagree with and that, in some ways, run contrary to the values of… — R. David Lankes Copy Share Image
I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The colonists had no library at their disposal; but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
The first draft you're pretty much on your own, so I love that. I can let my imagination go wild. I just… — Linda Woolverton Copy Share Image
“Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I want to talk about creating your life. There’s a quote I love, from the poet Mary Oliver, that goes: Tell me,… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Writing, therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself… — Jack Heffron Copy Share Image
“. . . I understand that I was writing (recording) as well as seeking to right (to rectify) the wrong, and now,… — Sandra M. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“For is not a Book the most reliable of Companions--and generally among the most stimulating as well? No need to worry about… — Natalie Wexler Copy Share Image
“Writing is hard. Not as hard as not writing. Not writing is torturous, bloody, chaotic and a gruesome winless battle. A writer… — Jamie Weise Copy Share Image
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
On a spectrum of literary productions, memoir is just another form. If the person doing the reviewing or critiquing was ill-educated about… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether… — Lisa Edelstein Copy Share Image
When we really start searching for the truth in stories, we can find it everywhere, not just in sincere confessions but in… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most revealing material. There… — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
I think that most of my writer friends are really compulsive. I think that's great. It's wonderful for them. It's just not… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I don't understand writers who feel they shouldn't have to do any of the ordinary things of life, because I think that… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Every genuinely literary style, from the high authorial voice to Foster Wallace and his footnotes-within-footnotes, requires the reader to see the world… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I'm a big journaler, so for every new journal, I would change the way my room looked and change the posters on… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
“The richest person in the world - in fact, all the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
I started typing diary in, I don't know, 1978 or '79, but then the computer changed that a lot. Because with the… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
As a writer, I have this compulsion to take characters who appear formidable and bombard them with adversity until they crumble. What's… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
