I'm always nice when I do drugs. But, you know, I'm nicer on the drug called "writing." — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live. — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book. — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature. — Ernst Fischer Copy Share Image
I'm going to write what I feel like writing, which is a great place to be. But it can be hard to… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
That, for me, is a very important test of a young writer's commitment because most of them are going to have to… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
I've tried to slow this down but realized that my natural reading rhythm is freakishly fast when an author friend asked me… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
He [Andrew Carnegie] wanted people to be able to lift themselves, to educate themselves, to train themselves. And there was no better… — David Nasaw Copy Share Image
I'm focusing on the music, but I still got a cold library of books that I've either read or I plan on… — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
“Aside from the posters, wherever there was room, there were books. Stacks and stacks of books. Books crammed into mismatched shelves and… — Megan Crane Copy Share Image
While open-access journals have grown rapidly, researchers still have to read the paywalled articles in commercial journals. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write because I want… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“To me, the single biggest mark of the amateur writer is a sense of hurry. Hurry to finish a manuscript, hurry to… — Charles Finch Copy Share Image
“Destroy your life; then put it back together.You'll get great material, meet some fascinating characters and – side benefit – the skills… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Literature supplements the lives of people and enables us to feel connected with the world. Shared stories blunt a sense of tragic… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Write poorly. Suck. Write Awful. Terribly. Frightfully. Don’t care. Turn off the inner editor. Let yourself write. Let it flow. Let yourself… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“I know there are readers in the world, as well as many other good people in it, who are no readers at… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
We have to make writing a viable career for all the people who get into this skill. — Quinta Brunson Copy Share Image
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
When I did the zero draft for Six of Crows,' it was a very organic process. — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
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
Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work. — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
I don't want to put up this act of being a voracious reader, which I am not. — Ajith Kumar 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
There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“When you’re a writer, the cure for whatever ails you is always writing.” — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
Who said time machines haven't been built yet? They already exist. They're called books — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
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