You just write and you don't try to make sense of it. You just put it down the way you got it. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I was fortunate enough to write about things I really love, and love can be very analytic. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
As a food writer, it's my job to know each and every cuisine on this planet as well as I can. — Melissa Leong Copy Share Image
“Life is hard enough. When I read, I want to go to another world that makes me feel warm and fuzzy.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Librarians! Librarians always know how to find out things. That was their job even before the Internet. — Susan Beth Pfeffer Copy Share Image
“You should write about your life. It's kind of funny. When it's not depressing as hell.” — Jeni Decker Copy Share Image
My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mary Jo Putney is a gifted writer with an intuitive understanding of what makes romances work. I loved Silk and Shadows, couldn't… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Then I thought of reading—the nice and subtle happiness of reading. This was enough, this joy not dulled by Age, this polite… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
I cannot and don't really want to control my mind, soul, or heart when I write and must recognize that I don't… — Lidija Dimkovska Copy Share Image
And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London. — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
I love being a writer. I am very lucky my life's ambition turned out to be just as much fun as I… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I used to write books and plays in my mind, but I doubt that any of them would have been above the… — John McCain Copy Share Image
“Novelist Sinclair Lewis was supposed to deliver an hour-long lecture to a group of college students who planned to be writers. Lewis… — Peter Prichard Copy Share Image
In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: 'No, no, no. You have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There's a shoe… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
The most important thing as a comic and a writer is to have a strong point of view. I have one and… — Heather McDonald Copy Share Image
When you write, you want fame, fortune and personal satisfaction. You want to write what you want to write and feel it's… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
Of my old tendency to overdo the dedication and deface the title page with florid compliments and obscure quotes which the recipient… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“ Una casa senza libreria è una casa senza dignità, — ha qualcosa della locanda, — è come una città senza librai,… — Edmondo De Amicis Copy Share Image
In re-reading 'Presumed Innocent,' the one thing that struck me - and I re-read the book four different times in writing 'Innocent,'… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“You are a writer when your overwhelming need to tell a story outweighs your fear of ridicule.” — Julie Rodelli Copy Share Image
Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money. — John Lyly Copy Share Image
I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career. — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
I could write a whole other book called 'I'm Judging You, America!' I still might. — Luvvie Ajayi Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is. — Pink Copy Share Image
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“If you were waiting for a sign that you’re meant to be a writer… THIS IS IT.” — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions... — Farley Mowat Copy Share Image
That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
