I think that all writing is in search of lost time. I'm starting to realise that very clearly. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to. — David E. Kelley Copy Share Image
All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Reading is looked at like it's corny or lame, but you'd be surprised what you can find in a book. — Jaylen Brown Copy Share Image
I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“A bad handwriting is as annoying to a reader … as an irritating voice is to a listener.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you want to write how you feel, but making people have fun, that's part of it, too. — Cole Swindell Copy Share Image
What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets; each card… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“When you're writing, you're creating something out of nothing ... A successful piece of writing is like doing a successful piece of… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“Sometimes she narrates her actions inside her head in third-person. Does that make her a writer or a woman?” — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and… — Jamie L. Harding Copy Share Image
The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Sometimes you just have to write some days off, and I know that's a terrible thing to say, but it's the truth. — Vogue Williams Copy Share Image
“I don't write for money or for my words to be read. I write because it takes me to dark corners in… — Zachary Koukol Copy Share Image
If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise… — Nina Bawden 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
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
"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
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