When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more. — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
I love to read, and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have. — Mary Mouser Copy Share Image
The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired. — Milton Berle Copy Share Image
The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
'One With You' was the hardest book I have ever written. I rewrote it three times. — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
“there’s a bigger social reward for being able to talk about books than for actually reading them.” — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
“Your taste in books says more about you than any other single object in your house. It reflects your interest, your intelligence,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The dirty little secret of publishing is that, all along, each book sold has had an average of 5 readers. That's an… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
What I've always said was, hang in there, let me write what I want to write, and you'll probably like it. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff. — Wells Tower Copy Share Image
I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Even when it comes to writing fiction, how do you encompass all this stuff that's right on the tip of your tongue?… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table.… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
A writer is obviously at his most natural and relaxed when he writes in the first person. Writing is a personal transaction… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“What we face is not a loss of books but the loss of a world. As in Alexandria after Aristotle’s time, or… — Matthew Battles Copy Share Image
Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage. I've always written in the long format, five, eight, 10-minute pieces… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Read a lot. But read as a writer, to see how other writers are doing it. And make your knowledge of literature… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
“Doing it all the time, whether or not we are in the mood, gives us ownership of our writing ability. It takes… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
We are already so many things by the time we reach the middle of life that it is possible to see that… — Michael Redhill Copy Share Image
“Now that reading and writing are universal accomplishments, books are not bought so freely as they were about 1820. . . .… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I was mainly in a state of nervousness while I wrote it - nervousness that it was far bigger and more complicated… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
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