My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around. — Amy Krouse Rosenthal Copy Share Image
Novels are so interior and idiosyncratic and such a solitary process. — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I read "The Group" by Mary McCarthy. It had tons of sex in it, or so I thought at the time. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Reading gives your knowledge and knowledge is power, which helps you live your life better” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is like a book, each chapter is a new challenge, and in the end it's a new life — Neil Copy Share Image
Writing is magic because it harnesses the energy generated by the chaos within. — Linda Gray Copy Share Image
I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
There is a much higher probability that a first-class scholar should commit an error than that an author who usually writes nonsense… — Otto E. Neugebauer Copy Share Image
“I can write, because writing—unlike choreography, architecture, or conquering kingdoms—is a thing you can do when you’re lonely and poor, and have… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“How do you write about something, even something real and painful-like suicide-when all of the writing that's been done on that subject… — Jeffrey Eugenides The Marriage Plot Copy Share Image
I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“I am going to become a writer for Cosmo—you don’t have to make any sense at all. Or maybe I’ll be a… — Louise Rennison Copy Share Image
A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and… — John Irving Copy Share Image
In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If you let anything infringe on your writing time, it will. And you won't get the writing done. Taking one day off… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
Sarah [Silverman] writes her own jokes. She doesn't just go through her life and talk about everything. She sits down and crafts… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
It is not the same thing if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner. A writer… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a dock,… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Then Mr. Norrell roused himself and took down five or six books in a great hurry and opened them up - presumably… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“I write because it’s a way of puzzling out answers to situations in the world that I don’t understand. The act of… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“As a writer, you must truly possess a love for words." "Yes, that's right," I agreed. "I've noticed that some authors favor… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
![“Sarah [Silverman] writes her own jokes. She doesn't just go through her life and talk about everything. She sits down and crafts jokes. Sometimes her inspiration comes from areas of her life that are risqué. But she is an A-plus professional joke-writer in addition to being very attractive and a…” quote by Mindy Kaling](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/017/mindy-kaling-672_areas_sarah-silverman-writes-her-own-jokes-she_2316002.png)
