“It is with the common book that most readers will spend their head-tilted hours.” — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
Elton John's home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft. — Bernie Taupin Copy Share Image
I want to contribute to the culture and keep great writers alive by telling the stories of their lives. — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
How do people write an auto biography? I can barley remember what I had for lunch yesterday. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like to write about certain things that if they are not written about are not going to exist. — James Salter Copy Share Image
My writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Maggie Shipstead takes hold of the reader and doesn't let go. Astonish Me is a haunting, powerful novel. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. . . . If it is a… — Wendy Wax Copy Share Image
“So the librarians at UCLA worked very hard to find another copy of Villacorta’s rendition of the Dresden Codex, and lent it… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
My writing time needs to surround itself with empty stretches, or at least unpeopled ones, for the writing takes place in an… — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
A writer is in the broadest sense a spokesman of his community. Through him that community comes to know its heart. Without… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
In some ways, getting published in children's literature is a little more open than publishing adult literature. It's less hinged on who… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
I don't know if memoirs can produce literary work of the first order. But I do know that novels are doing it… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
The thing for someone just starting off [in writing] is to write. You need to have limber fingers, whether you write with… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Going from memoir to fiction was fantastic. I had been afraid to move away from memoir; I'd written some novel drafts, but… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
You're forced to me to back going on copy & pest throughout eliminating my name on my own composition. that's really painful… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“Students must develop relationships with reading peers and use online, print, and other resources to inform their book choices, or they will… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
Many people ask why a writer commits suicide. But I think that people who ask don't know the vanity and the nothingness… — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image
At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
![“The thing for someone just starting off [in writing] is to write. You need to have limber fingers, whether you write with your fingers or you type on your laptop, but you need to have a limber mind and you need to be able to write without judging what you've written, at least right away, and…” quote by Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/d3b/augusten-burroughs-603_able_the-thing-for-someone-just-starting-off_2135014.jpg)
