“Your don't have to burn books to destroy culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else. — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one. — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Anyone who goes into writing has to find out somewhere along the line, he's either naive or insane. — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
“Very few authors, especially the unpublished, can resist an invitation to read aloud.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“As you can see, when I write, I like to look like I’m recovering from tuberculosis.” — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
When I left home, my mum said "Don't forget to write", I thought, "That's unlikely"... It's a basic skill isn't it. — Tim Vine Copy Share Image
As a writer of fiction, you don't ever want to limit the characters you create to the life you've lived. That's insanity… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not. — John Cleese Copy Share Image
Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Here's the bottom line; writers write. Sometimes words flow easily. Sometimes it's like sloughing through mud. Either way a professional writer keeps… — P. C. Cast Copy Share Image
“I never get writer's block. My secret...I have purring cats in surround sound while I write...best white noise on the planet." R.Rose… — R. Rose Copy Share Image
Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Audience of angels descend in the ambiance reciting praises in your glory, when you wear your dance shoes, when you arrive at… — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“My answer is that if it be true that every novel contains an element of autobiography—and this can hardly be denied, since… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“If a writer is any good, what he makes will have its source in a realm much larger than that which his… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“No matter what our curriculum requires us to teach or how little class time we have, children must read a lot in… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
Henceforth it will be the task of this Sacred Congregation not only to examine carefully the books denounced to it, to prohibit… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
“[Telzey] took out a pocket edition law library and sat down at the table. She clicked on the library's viewscreen, tapped the… — James H. Schmitz Copy Share Image
Writing is very cathartic for me. As a teacher, I hear many students say that writing can be painful and exhausting. It… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
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