“Of all reviews, the crushing review is the most popular, as being the most readable.” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Being able to read and knowing how to read are completely different concepts.” — S.A. Garcia Copy Share Image
Embarrassingly enough, I often can't remember how I came to write something. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If I hadn't been able to get my first book published, I am not sure what I would have done. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
As an SF writer, you've got the infinite toolkit of the writer at your disposal. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I have a background writing screenplays and teleplays. I've tried to write prose and fiction but never really completed anything I thought… — Michael Imperioli Copy Share Image
I've chosen television because of the quality of material that I'm offered, not being a writer, so I've turned a lot of… — David Nutter Copy Share Image
It's nice to live in a country that has its priorities straight: the library's open three hours a week, and the House… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Writers perform an extremely important role: they make others dream, those who are unable to dream for themselves. And everyone needs to… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
For better or worse, most of my writing life has been about people that work behind the scenes. I'm interested in finding… — Mark Boal Copy Share Image
At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“time. Take a lot of it at the beginning of the writing process. I’m not talking about hours or even days. I’m… — John Truby Copy Share Image
As Danton sees it, the most bizarre aspect of Camille's character is his desire to scribble over every blank surface; he sees… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The Seven Warning Signs I Might Have a Bad Idea: ► Fear of telling anyone about it ► Fear it might be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Life was transparent, literature opaque. Life was open, literature a closed system. Life was composed of things, literature of words. Life was… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
The discipline of writing a memoir comes in the editing. This is where I cut, slash, and burn - where my creative… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows--far too many for her the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Only now, years after having read though the works of Shakespeare, Dickens, Scott, Poe, Balzac did he realise that even the most… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read. — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
“Why bother to learn to read when you can smell meat a mile away?” — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
It's very important for a writer to be unnoticed, as quiet and unnoticed as possible. — Edith Pearlman Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“All of us who write need a good editor. - Sharon Langevin Crawford” — Sharon Langevin Crawford Copy Share Image
“Truth in her dress finds facts too tight. In fiction she moves with ease.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it. — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule. — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
Sweet Jane' is my favorite song by Lou Reed the writer, at least the Velvet Underground Lou Reed. — Scarface Copy Share Image
After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
“As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
