[I] try to do both because the writing for me, to be a new artist, the writing is gonna pay the bills. — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I am so thrilled to carve out a few minutes to write that I grab it whenever I can. — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy. — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
What I do with the story itself varies of course, but what I want to do is to present the world so… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next, and it's not a question of… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one. As as… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
I think that you need to have books that talk about the lives of the poor, and they need to be involved… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
For the grand and inescapable tradition of western literary classics confronts us with fundamental choices over our understanding of words, reading and… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." — Mark Twain Beh-Rang… — Samad Beh-Rang Copy Share Image
It's one of my biggest memories of my father reading. I had pneumonia, remember, but I was a little better now, and… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
When a librarian really believes that a book is harmful, that its content is contrary to the welfare of the community, or… — Jesse Shera Copy Share Image
As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“The smell of books is the smell of us all coming together to document, entertain, and explain things for ourselves now and… — Neil Pasricha Copy Share Image
“we cannot escape showing who we are. What we write and how we express it gives away as much information as our… — Susan Feehan Copy Share Image
My mother was terribly invasive, all in the name of psychiatric honesty. It was a bad thing in some ways, but I… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Oh, the Places You'll Go!,' by Dr. Seuss, is still one of my favorite books ever. — Hilary Swank Copy Share Image
Iam the writer of my life and its up to me to make my story interesting — Chwayita Betshe Copy Share Image
“Most books usually are. It’s hard to categorize books. Each story is a world unto itself.” — Kelli Jean Copy Share Image
A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
From when I was a kid I wanted to write. It was so important to me that I was writing my own… — Emeli Sande Copy Share Image
Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody. — Peter Bichsel Copy Share Image
“writing is serious business and not for any stray bastard that wants to try it.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Writers aren't exactly people, they are a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Books which are books are all that you want, and there are but half a dozen in any thousand.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In Bangkok's budding literary scene, Prabda Yoon sits at the centre. — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Don't let anyone else hold your pen if you are writing your story. — Sushan R Sharma Copy Share Image
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