I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images. — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
Your worst enemy as a writer - especially one working online a lot of the time - is obscurity. — Ryan North Copy Share Image
When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going. — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand. — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor. — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writers from the majority can assume their audiences know what they're talking about - they don't have to explain things, whereas minority… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
I think a writer's first job is to entertain, even in novels: to tell a compelling story that pulls the reader along… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you're writing, you're writing nothing worth reading. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I'm writing a memoir. I'm four pages in. I start with my first memory, which is kicking my uncle in the balls.… — Michael Showalter Copy Share Image
To me, truth is the big thing. Constantly you're writing something and you get to a place where your characters could go… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my… — John Jakes Copy Share Image
Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
'Daughter of Smoke and Bone' is one of my all-time top YA fantasy trilogies, so I was a little nervous about reading… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
I have to be careful not to visit one place right after the other and write one book after the other. Because… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
I think there is an enormous diference between speaking and writing. One rereads what one writes. But one might read it slowly… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“A book can be pocketed and discarded, scrawled and torn into pages, lost and bought again. It can be dragged out from… — Kató Lomb Copy Share Image
William Shakespeare was a brilliant writer and he only wrote the truth. So, if I dont believe it, I have to work… — Condola Rashad Copy Share Image
Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
What I would love is for people to see some of the stories I want to tell. — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
“He had a small but well stocked library. He loved books; books are a remote but reliable friend.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages.. — Naomi Ragen Copy Share Image
“Writing? whatever you are writing about i support you...In my eyes you are talented - Rayvon L Browne” — Rayvon L. Browne Copy Share Image
“I'm a librarian," he said. "I always know what I'm talking about.” — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
“If you don't like a book, you can close it. But you have no right to say I can't open it.” — Coleen Murtagh Paratore Copy Share Image
“Until I feared I would loose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“As long as one person reads the bullshit I put on paper, and likes it, i'll keep writing.” — Benjamin Bayani Copy Share Image
I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything. I just want to write. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Reading this chapter is optional but as you’ve read it you’ve read it.” — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“The Baby Name book can be a very dangerous tool in the hands of a prolific author.” — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
A novel is challenging, because you have more story than you need and you have to select and narrow. — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
