I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote. — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
For me, using a notebook every day keeps me on track! Some people use planners; those are great, too. — Rachel Hollis Copy Share Image
I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything. — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
I handwrite out all my lines. I like to see my handwriting, and I like to keep my notes over time. — George Eads Copy Share Image
“With great enthusiasm and determination you will master the art in your field.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
The beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That's what I love about being a writer of novels. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didnt publish my first book until I was 41. — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
“A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“I always wanted to write a book, but it looked really hard: how did you get all the lines to come out… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
As a writer of fiction, I spend my days inventing real lives for make-believe people; what I create can only seem real. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“People ask what's up with this writing business? What do I hope to accomplish? I tell 'em I'm just a brick mason;… — Quentin R. Bufogle Copy Share Image
“All serious and good writing anticipates precisely this kind of reading-ruminative and leisurely, a dalliance with words in contrast to wolfing down… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Although I did admire David Foster Wallace's final unfinished novel about boredom, I'm no DFW, and I want my books to be… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
It's a weird business. You're trying to write something that's built on magic, which is pretty stressful. — Andy Grammer Copy Share Image
“Only because books are better than people, Father. ... Because they are masters who instruct without a rod. If you approach them,… — Catherine Jinks Copy Share Image
Reading is a stout-hearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've never gone through the paces that writing textbooks sometimes recommend, such as writing out a character's biography, or determining what his… — Teddy Wayne Copy Share Image
“My books are a subject of much discussion. They pour from shelves onto tables, chairs and the floor, and Chaz observes that… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
When I was kid, they always used to tell me to keep notebooks. I look at my shelves now and it's just… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
TV showrunners have become known entities to people who watch television in the way that movie directors have been known to filmgoers… — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
You are currently experiencing desire; otherwise, you wouldn't be reading these words. Even if you are reading them at the behest of… — William Braxton Irvine Copy Share Image
You can't control what's going to happen to the book you're about to publish. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
“It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds...” — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
It's doubtful that any fiction worth reading has been produced on a computer running Windows Vista. — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I've gotten very alert not just to mixed metaphor but to any writing mistake. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new. — William Temple Copy Share Image
Books open windows to the world and have the power to transform lives. — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Once you finish reading a book , you find out how different you are from other people. — MlY AB Copy Share Image
I don't write for the money. I write because something in me is constantly compelled. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer. — Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Copy Share Image
