I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it. — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
“Writing is easy. Writing is hard. It's a breeze and a struggle, just like life.” — Dennis R. Miller Copy Share Image
The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
The trouble is when people read about authors, they don't feel compelled to read the authors' work. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Some people just need to read and think, to spend time alone sorting through the stories in their heads” — Ronald T. Potter-Efron Copy Share Image
You know that gap between where you are and where you'd like to be? Within that gap, there is an ache and… — Amanda Harlech Copy Share Image
I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books… — Jason Marsden Copy Share Image
“Even when not in the act of writing Muscatine a letter, I was often composing one in my mind, situating the words… — Timothy Schaffert Copy Share Image
“So many signs exist today that you could write a book about them. In fact, I did, The Beginning of the End,… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
“And a second thank you to my genius editor, Julian Pavia, who pushed me as hard as I’ve ever been pushed and… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels. — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“They were as real as Sara, and it was careless of them not to come out of the story shadowland and say,… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“Read together, these two completed narratives constitute the saga of an exemplary twentieth-century American unsentimental education, in which the generosity of Billy… — William S. Burroughs Jr Copy Share Image
Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the… — Tabitha King Copy Share Image
When I was a child, there was very little money, so I've always been concerned for my financial security, which has meant… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“It’s 3:33 am as I’m writing this down on loose sheets of printer paper. I’m in the back office sitting behind the… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“From the outset Dickens seemed to take charge even though he was younger than Seymour and less well known. His narrative input… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
