I can't say that I love writing, but I do love the satisfaction that it gives me. — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
Awesome piece of literature work can be found mostly in sad and angry hearts — Kevin Knight Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I'm writing in a genre that isn't highly regarded. — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“She set her book carefully down, dog-earing a corner of her page with love.” — Sandhya Menon Copy Share Image
Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's… — Angel Olsen Copy Share Image
That's what I love about writing is you don't need anyone's permission to do it. You can just get up in the… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
I always knew I'd be leaving government someday. I just didn't know when. There was something about knowing that it was temporary… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“By all means," said Richard. "Let's talk about something other than books. Something safer. Like politics or religion.” — Charlie Hill Copy Share Image
Russell Brand has announced that he plans to write a series of children's books. First up: 'Horton Hears a Heroin Dealer.' — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
I'm comfortable having a specific audience to write to. I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as… — Dave Sim Copy Share Image
People have asked me why I made the first chapter of my first novel so long, and in an invented English. The… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I won't read a book that starts with a description of the weather. I don't read books over 300 pages, though I'll… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I consider myself a writer who writes about American expatriates. And if I have any overt cause as a writer besides writing… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
“From the judge who lifted the Philadelphia ban on Never Love a Stranger, on Harold’s books: “I would rather my daughter learn… — Harold Robbins Copy Share Image
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
“Without being aware that I was following in my father’s footsteps, I read, before I went to Cambridge, Mill’s Logic and Political… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The thought of people reading in the sun, on a beach, tempts me to recommend dark books, written in the shadow of… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
“You should read this book’ almost never simply means you should read this book. It is usually far more fraught. Telling someone… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
With a computer, you make your changes on the screen and then you print out a clean copy. With a typewriter, you… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“I find it’s more fun to write about something that you don’t know completely and that you will discover on route. A… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“Getting published - keep knocking on the door and never give up until it opens.” — Peter G. Jones Copy Share Image
“The book thief had struck for the first time - the beginning of an illustrious career.” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart. — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
“Is it not a pity when some stylistic subtlety is lost without trace by the reader's inattention?” — David John Richards Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read. — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
“Read books when you are free, read minds when you are'nt…but do read...” — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting. — Saul Kripke Copy Share Image
Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I am quite a slow writer. I can only work under pressure; I wait until the last minute. — James Hunter Copy Share Image
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book. — Moliere Copy Share Image
It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly. — C. J. Cherryh Copy Share Image
“You can choose what you write but you can't choose what you make live.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
