In daytime, they're doing 50-60 pages a day, whereas nighttime, you do seven or eight. — Corbin Bernsen Copy Share Image
“Books are precious things and cannot be selected like tinned peas in Tesco.” — Colin Bateman Copy Share Image
Even a day writing badly for me is 10 times better than a day where I don’t write at all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I started as a writer. I had the dumb act, but I made my living from writing. — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book. — Rob Machado Copy Share Image
Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I sometimes think about writing just to keep my mind active when I'm not working, but I don't think I would be… — Ruby Bentall Copy Share Image
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must not inquire too curiously into the absolute value of literature. Enough that it amuses and exercises us. At least it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live us many more… — S.I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - lives to be a… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
I always, at least back then, struggled with emotion in writing. I felt like I could do odd, unusual things, but there… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“A well-written article does not make what was written factual or something to subscribe to. Fiction does not become fact because it… — Loren Weisman Copy Share Image
Every time I start a new novel, it seems like an impossible undertaking. If I tried to do too much too quickly,… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
It's somewhat of a contradiction, .. I guess the quieter the voice, the more necessary it is to push it. It's not… — David Bergen Copy Share Image
I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
Please follow the counsel you have been given in the past and maintain your personal journals. Those who keep a book of… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
