The first thing a writer needs to know is what kind of writer he/she is. — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“Killing the Angel in the House was part of the occupation of a woman writer.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book. — George Murray Copy Share Image
People send me songs all the time that are literally no-brainer hits... but for me, I'm an artist because I'm a writer. — Kelsea Ballerini Copy Share Image
I write a letter to my mother every day, because in that letter, I write down my day. And if I don't… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I primarily write nonfiction. Research, reflection, and spending time with ideas are important to me. So, this is how I spend most… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
I was the kid who read a lot and who was academic, and who was more of an indoor person than an… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I have books I like very much, but I don't think there are any books that everyone should read. I prefer a… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
When you are going through something that heavy, for me anyway, I couldn't imagine writing about anything else. I always tend to… — Nicole Atkins Copy Share Image
If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of Hugh Kenner, Richard Ellman, Lionel Trilling and Frank Kermode. All these people have taught me how to read… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I think it's just too kinda juicy and compelling to imagine people in their private lives, but then half the time people's… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
“I like writing that is restrained and invisible. I don't mean that I like things to be simple and easy to decode,… — S.U. Pacat Copy Share Image
“To write is to objectify dreams, to create an outer world as a material reward [?] of our nature as creators. To… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Because I write what I feel the most heavy about. So if there is one day of the week when I feel… — Phoebe Bridgers Copy Share Image
I'd say, [writing memoir] not so much a model, but maybe to provide an insight, here or there, to help somebody come… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“Each time someone dies, a library burns by John Lennon "the Sky is everywhere” — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Writing is an act of discovery in which you peel back the layers of the story as you write it down.” — Matt Forbeck Copy Share Image
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again. — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
“Each tombstone was like the cover of a book that had been sealed forever.” — Marina Nemat Copy Share Image
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