I need to write down my observations. Even the tiniest ones; they're the most important. — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
I always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally. — James L. Brooks Copy Share Image
“I have learned through dreams more wisdom, than by reading hundreds of books.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
“Each book holds an experience and an adventure." [ Letters of Note ; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]” — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged… — Nancy Meyers Copy Share Image
It's always hard to write and get your words out there, to find an editor, a publisher - readers! - who are… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
The only pleasure in redecorating or moving house comes from stumbling across books that I'd almost forgotten I owned. — John Burnside Copy Share Image
You really write the books you want to write. You can't take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I yearn for intellectual sustenance on vacation but want, of course, to avoid tedium or boredom. I want to read something that… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
“The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. They're Caesar's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The whole idea of spellbinding, of being an entertainer, being the center of the stage, making up words - that let me… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination,… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“Crammed among the stacks of books in his room, the author treated literature as if each book were a window in a… — Joseph Patrick Pascale Copy Share Image
“write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Xenial' is a word which refers to the giving of gifts to strangers. . . . I know that having a good… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am asking Scribners to insert as a subtitle in everything after the eighth printing THE SUN ALSO RISES (LIKE YOUR COCK… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I read Aschenbach's constant desire to go beyond the works he has already produced to be the counterpart of Mann's deep wish… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one… — Michael LeBoeuf Copy Share Image