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
There's a limit that you will not be able to go past if you don't understand the importance of reading. — Eric Thomas Copy Share Image
The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No CEO examining books today understands what the hell is going on. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
As a writer and former elected official, I believe in the power of words. — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
“If there is a bibliographic equivalent of alcoholism, many librarians have it.” — G. Edward Evans Copy Share Image
“The crowds and centuries of books are only commentary and elucidation, echoes and weakeners of those few great voices of Time.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
If you're writing, it means getting up and writing all day, and if you're filming, it's getting up and filming all day.… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
“Then again, I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“In its published form, this book is being read, I assume, in the first years of 2000 A.D. (1935 plus eighty or… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
“When you're writing, you're creating something out of nothing ... A successful piece of writing is like doing a successful piece of… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets; each card… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Writing, when properly managed (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. As no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Perhaps there is another kind of writing, I only know this one, in the night, when anxiety does not let me sleep,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Despite his first, the study of English literature seemed in retrospect an absorbing parlor game, and reading books and having opinions about… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Letterwriting is the natural outlet of the "odds." The busy-bodies, the idle, the perverted, the cranks, the feel-it-my-duties ... Also the plain… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
“Things that only a writer would understand—you’re writing a character—you tell that character who she or he is and they stop you… — Lisa Marbly-Warir Copy Share Image
Clear writing is universal. People talk about writing down to an audience or writing up to an audience; I think that's nonsense.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. When I first started writing, I… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
The importance to the world of what we scribblers write is in doubt, I would think. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential. — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read. — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
That's writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn't turn up. — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Willa Cather said that she write best when she stopped trying to write and began simply to remember. — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
“I write a lot because I don't talk much. If I don't write, I'll talk much.” — Nurina Izzati Copy Share Image
The real threat to reading isn’t the time we spend hanging out, it’s the time we spend online. — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
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