Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read. — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
My parents came to visit every two months and brought plenty of books. — Mathias Rust Copy Share Image
I know when it comes to TV, the writer is king, but to me, the filmmaker is king. — Sam Esmail Copy Share Image
“The only day you should never write and achieve your goals is when the day ends with the letter y.” — Onyi Anyado Copy Share Image
If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening. — Sting Copy Share Image
“The Writers curse We have to write We have no choice We have stories to TELL” — Paul Barrell Copy Share Image
Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of. — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
I tend to describe recurring themes as being part of a writer's DNA - something so deeply embedded in us that even… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
“Book lovers, readers who cherish the feel, smell and look of the printed book are concerned about the demise of the printed… — Daniel Alef Copy Share Image
As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough – I wrote faster than I would write a letter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I loved books—not only the stories they contained, but the feel of them in my hands, the silk of the pages, the… — Laurelin Paige Copy Share Image
Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
“It is quite impossible to write a worth-while novel about a Jew or a Gentile or a Homosexual, for people refuse, unhappily,… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The basis of almost every argument or conclusion I can make is the axiom that the short story can be anything the… — H. E. Bates Copy Share Image
I've never known a writer who didn't feel ill at ease in the world. We all feel unhoused in some sense. That's… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
“There are days when I get lost in the business of surviving in this world. I stop and enter my closet of… — Marsha Gomes-Mckie Copy Share Image
I stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
“When I read a novel I am not here. I am transported to far-off places, my eyes unseeing of the words on… — Nancy Moser Copy Share Image
