It's easier to write about what you know. I wouldn't write about a Wall Street broker, for example. — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
“I read because one life isn’t enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody.” — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
“When you’re a writer, the cure for whatever ails you is always writing.” — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
Most books about Stanley Kubrick were written by people who never met him and gathered information from articles written by others who… — Jan Harlan Copy Share Image
Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I didn't set out to write. It was just something I always could do. Teachers would say, 'you really have this gift,'… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
One book that I just think is absolutely beautiful is 'The Kite Runner.' I'd recommend that one to any and everyone. — Snoh Aalegra Copy Share Image
Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters. — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
I think fiction is all about the exercise of the empathetic imagination. Part of what I do is let the stuff I… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
My Heart and Other Black Holes is alive with intensity, gut-wrenching honesty, moments of humor, and -- of course -- heart. This… — Nova Ren Suma Copy Share Image
“If your written words become literal nails to crucify you with, then you have done your job well. You provoked a reaction,… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
“Wise Blood was written by an author congenitally innocent of theory, but one with certain preoccupations. That belief in Christ is to… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
When you're old enough to write a book for children, by then you'll have become a grown up and have lost all… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“Letter writing allows us to be alone yet connected. We need a certain amount of solitude in order to have true ideas… — Alexandra Stoddard Copy Share Image
[I began to unload] the pyramid of honors, civic and literary, which had been heaped on me by the headlong process of… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“A novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.” — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.” — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
Who said time machines haven't been built yet? They already exist. They're called books — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Here's a story that I really want to tell about Bo Diddley at the OK corral. — Warren Zevon Copy Share Image
Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Writing is something that I am ever driven to do, and concerning which I am never satisfied. — Nora Waln Copy Share Image
A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside. — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“Giving a child a book is better than any toy you can buy, even a fidget spinner.” — Sonia Cunningham Leverette Copy Share Image
Being the director - way fancier than 'just' being the writer. People call you 'talent.' — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
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