Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I get the beginning. I get the end. Then I write the middle. That's how I do it. — Chazz Palminteri Copy Share Image
“The best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism.” — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I have a novel out, 'Lupus Rex,' that I wrote and am excited about that. — John Carter Cash Copy Share Image
I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer. — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“Those who don't read good books have no advantage over those who can't.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The problem with digital books is that you can always find what you are looking for but you need to go to… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Every single one of my books had its title changed almost as we were going to press, for all sorts of different… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
If I don't know who I'm writing for, I make it up and pick somebody I'm writing for. That's really the only… — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image
All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can't let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
This is what I think: If you had the nerve to live what you lived, you should have the nerve to write… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
What has stayed true in my life as a writer is my dedication to writing - I try to write every day,… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
“It is an awesome tragedy in this life that, when asking what a person is and they reply doctor or lawyer or… — D.A. Botta Copy Share Image
“Novel writing, I soon discovered, is like channel swimming: a slow and steady stroke over a long distance in a cold, dark… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that… — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
We've clearly entered a period in which the analog of text is no longer important or relevant. All text will be electronic.… — Will Self Copy Share Image
It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
“Literature has the ability to open up a whole new world to children, but we need to have a share in helping… — Carmela Dutra Copy Share Image
I don't change the language for children books. I don't make the language simpler. I use words that they might have to… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And -- though played out forms can… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
When you're writing something that is truly original it takes time. — Daniel Lissing Copy Share Image
The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“In my case, I chose writing in place of death, and because I lacked faith.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
When a new book comes out or becomes accessible in whatever form, I get it and I read it. — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy. — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
These words are all I have so I write them I need them just to get by. — Fall Out Boy Copy Share Image
