We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
For me writing is that place where I can escape; it's where I let my thoughts run wild. — Ella Henderson Copy Share Image
I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil. — William Styron Copy Share Image
I don't want everyone to read anything; I like us all reading different books. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
“Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy.” — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
For me, writing is inseparable from thinking. I could say the entire undertaking is a vast cerebral construct against my demons. It's… — Kathryn Harrison Copy Share Image
I can definitely write a book. Growing up, I really learned that. The stuff I was reading were urban books and I… — Rod Wave Copy Share Image
The most crucial thing is to learn the craft: how to string sentences together, how to make your dialogue sound like real… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
If I gave up writing, I'd have to find an equally obsessive way to fill my time. Yarn-bombing skyscrapers or making houses… — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
“One must own that there are certain books which can be read without the mind and without the heart, but still with… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Your whole duty as a writer is to please and satisfy yourself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
It would just be a pamphlet. Three pages. The first page would be Drugs I Have Taken and then a list. The… — Ryan Jarman Copy Share Image
Most of you probably didn't know that I have a new book out. Some guy put together a collection of my wit… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
How to read writers on writing: With respect, amusement, and skepticism. They will contradict one another-as they should-for each writer brings an… — Donald Murray Copy Share Image
“There are books, that one has for twenty years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, that one takes along… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a novel that I have read over and over and over again. Tess is a… — Laetitia Casta Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in telling people what they should do, so I'll tell you what you shouldn't do instead... young people can't… — Lili Wilkinson Copy Share Image
I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies. I write about reconciliation, but… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
