Sound judgment is the ground of writing well. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Copy Share Image
People wanted more advice. So I finally thought I could totally put this advice into a book. — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
Bed is a good friend; book is a good friend; night is a good friend. Try to bring them all together. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives. — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
Writing is almost a place of dreams for me, and I don't have to give up anything to do it. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S.… — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It's fun when you have a whole team of writers that really like writing for someone; you always end up with some… — Adrian Pasdar Copy Share Image
Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
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A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I am drawing on a lot of my feelings that are in sync with many people's feelings about facing the last chapter… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
Some people may not like me when they have a pen in their hand, so they write what they want. That's fine.… — Darrelle Revis Copy Share Image
Everything I write doesn't appear to be biography until later. I often say that I've never written about anything I've experienced. Of… — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
“Theoretically there's no reason one should get [writer's block], if one understands that writing, after all, is only writing, neither something one… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“Concentrate on sharpening your memory and peeling your sensibility. Cut every page you write by at least one third. Stop constructing those… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“I think this story-writing business is the foolishest yet," scoffed Marilla. "You'll get a pack of nonsense into your heads and waste… — L. M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“You can possess a book without really owning it, though. Beyond ownership in a commercial or legal sense, there’s ownership of an… — Blake Morrison Copy Share Image
The primary goal of publishing general fiction and non-fiction was never profit - though profit was essential to stay in the game.… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
But even now, with the crates piled high in the hall, what I see most plainly about the books is that they… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
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