In television, the writer-creator-showrunner is embraced as the creative mind. — Jim Rash Copy Share Image
If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it. — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
I hate that not everything ever written is on iBooks. Man, I hate paper. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books. — A. Edward Newton Copy Share Image
I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told. — George Payne Rainsford James Copy Share Image
Who says one instance of writing has anything in common with another instance? — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“I could spend the rest of my life READING, Just satisfying my CURIOSITY - because you can hardly mention anything I'm not… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I would consider my diary serves the same purpose as going for a walk or a run. They are all physical ways… — Chet Faker Copy Share Image
“The more books you read, the less topics you have in common with most of the people, that´s the price you pay… — Martina Tutková Copy Share Image
The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I'm a great planner, so before I ever write chapter 1, I work out what happens in every chapter and who the… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
I always liked to write and had fun writing, but I didn't have any pretensions about being a writer. I liked to… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Writing can't change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul. — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“...I’ve never understood the logic that says a work doesn’t need to be judged on the quality of its writing or characters… — Glen Hirshberg Copy Share Image
I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I directed my first music video for Sara Bareilles. I like writing and directing. I co-wrote '21 Jump Street' and I'm in… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
Human society is the embodiment of changeless laws which the whimsicalities and circumstances of men and women involve and overwrap. The realm… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
When one crosses over from an activity, or the verb, of writing or doing, and becomes a noun, like "a writer" I… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I'm not one of the people who has a kind of scholarly hat and writes in a certain way for an academic… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller, and… — Steve Leveen Copy Share Image
I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
“At its loftiest, a library's goal is to keep as many minds as possible in the game ...” — Josh Hanagarne Copy Share Image
I just write the way I feel, and if it feels good to me, hopefully everybody likes it. — David Bryan Copy Share Image
Writing in my journal keeps me focused on my spirit and what I need or feel. — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
There are books that inspired me the first time round and re-reading them just reignites that. — Edith Bowman Copy Share Image
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
A lot of books in the self-help section of your bookstore really belong in the fiction section. — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“When you are a writer, you can daydream all day and yet claim that you're working.” — Dodong Charing Copy Share Image
I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
