A book does not make bad jokes, drink too much or eat more than you can afford to pay for. — Kenneth Turan Copy Share Image
“the thing about books is, there are quite a number you don't have to read.” — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“I think that the direction in which a writer should look is around.” — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I would advise budding writers some other kind of job, unless they think they're very, very lucky. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Sometimes one must choose between turning the pages and move on and closing the book for a better future — Mercy Pheona Copy Share Image
Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
I'm always reading several books at the same time, depending on how deeply engrossed in it I am, if it's fiction and… — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
“Book reviewer: Very often a writer who has never been published taking out their frustrations on a writer who has.” — Raul Ramos y Sanchez Copy Share Image
I think at the start of writing it was less intense topics, and then once I broke the seal I was more… — Luke Hemmings Copy Share Image
“You're never confident. You go in fear and trembling every day. It would be awfully nice to think that you know how… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“And suddenly, having waited so long to hold it in my hands, I felt paralyzed to read it. Certainly, I was unable… — Sana Krasikov Copy Share Image
There's a paradox in rereading. You read the first time for rediscovery: an encounter with the confirming emotions. But you reread for… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“focus completely and without distraction on a single research task. (He typically divides the writing of a scholarly paper into three discrete… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
For short term relaxation, I take a hot tub. It's my best way to unblock writers' block, too. For a bit longer… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is a resolutely solitary pastime, and I love being with people, so the public side of being an author is,… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I always thought of writing as public, I never thought of writing a diary. I had been struck by, jolted by things… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
At the outset, I think that one should be natural, not just when it comes to writing but in every area of… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
