“The goal is not to be famous. The goal is to write. And to love doing it every day.” — C.G. Coppola Copy Share Image
I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time. — Stanley Tucci Copy Share Image
On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing. — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to figure out ways to keep hold of memories. My one-sentence journal, for instance. — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“I don't write because I want to write. I do it because I have to. I just wish it was my day… — Stephanie Michel Copy Share Image
For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working. — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
Years ago, the writers were telling me that I'd make the Hall of Fame, so I kind of prepared a speech. But… — Johnny Mize Copy Share Image
“...entered the library, and could do nothing but stare in wonder...She wondered if she should curtsy as if she were entering a… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Over a hundred German scientists arrived here [Huntsville] at eleven o’clock on an April morning and by nightfall more than sixty had… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Walking rapidly - or even slowly - through a gallery is equivalent to browsing through a bookstore and reading the blurbs. — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is… — James H. Billington Copy Share Image
Write. Start writing today. Start writing right now. Don’t write it right, just write it -and then make it right later. Give… — Tara Moss Copy Share Image
Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Feeling like she really was just seven or eight, Claire sat down on the floor, books all around her, and she opened… — Jennifer Lynn Barnes Copy Share Image
Well, my father Kingsley Amis was a writer and it seemed natural to start writing in my late teens. I think it… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“We are a vertically integrated publishing house that equips readers to make positive changes in their lives and in the world around… — Microcosm Publishing Copy Share Image
Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
When I was probably about 10 or 11, and I found it was simply something I could do. When you're at school… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
“I don’t like writers whose writing is so obvious that I can predict what he’ll write while I’m still taking in his… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Do I have to talk to insane people?" "You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
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