When you're on book tours, you definitely need chocolate. At all times. — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
I don't think I could write about someone I didn't feel some sympathy for. — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
A book hasn't caused me this much trouble since Where's Waldo went to that barber pole factory. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They are so beautiful: your words" she told me. And I said "No, you are!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Ultimately, writing is about trusting your own mind. It is an act of discovery. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity.” — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I write - so it would seem - to recapture, to preserve and return to the past, though I might just as… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“A child has no need to write, he is innocent. A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once I started to write, it was like all the lights came on. I was always making up stories in my head.… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
“Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
“Jahrling sat down at his desk and sighed. There was a landfill of papers on his desk, mostly about smallpox, and it… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
If you want to be a Roman Catholic scholar and write, you've got to write in such a way that nobody understands… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I do try to deliver a solid first draft, meaning it's my tenth or twentieth draft and then I call it 'first'… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
“Then Ruskin came. I showed him our small library. He looked at it with disapproving eyes. “ Each book ”, he said… — Jane Ellen Harrison Copy Share Image
We can spend Rs 5,000 for a meal at the Taj and thousands on all kinds of shopping, but we're always stingy… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“published in 1991 led to more than 1,800 further titles, with more than 250 million copies in print, translations in more than… — John Wiley and Sons Copy Share Image
“Then he picks up the first book and holds it so Peter can read the title. I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“I'm afraid to write. It's so dangerous. Anyone who's tried, knows. The danger of stirring up hidden things - and the world… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
To me, writing is a personal thing; I write super-personal, autobiographically. — Troye Sivan Copy Share Image
Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another. — Irving Thalberg Copy Share Image
“Fiction means never letting the pure truth get in the way of a good story.” — Nathaniel Robert Winters Copy Share Image
Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows. — George Frideric Handel Copy Share Image
I number my drafts, and by the time a book is done, I'll have 75 or 80 drafts of some sections. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape. — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
“I know I am a writer because until I’m writing I don’t know what I know.” — Wayson Choy Copy Share Image
