I always try to mix it up with each book - changing tone, changing style keeps the work very vital for me. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I always find out after the fact that the books I've been writing were actually some sort of therapy, some sort of,… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Reading opens your mind and helps you understand and empathize with people who are unlike you and outside your breadth of experience. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
“Approaching quietly, she knelt on the carpet at her side, and looked over her little shoulder at her book. It was a… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Stop to read good writers who are witty and are fun, 'cause that's the kind of fuel on which your Train of… — Mister Lemur Copy Share Image
I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the fire. — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
I don't read good books anymore, it seems; I just buy them and put them on the shelf and every now and… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“It’s just so typical. I’ve had writer’s block for days now− I literally couldn’t write a coherent sentence− then about a minute… — Emily Harper Copy Share Image
Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
When we read a literary work (or, in some instances, listen to music) our imagination is stimulated, we feel various emotions, and… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“love to read, but whenever I pick up a novel that blows me away, I think, There’s no way I have something… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Writing is a deeply immersive experience. When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn’t notice. I have… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Books for children get into schools. Committed teachers use books like mine alongside films, non-fiction and fiction to help children investigate and… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
I could give you some names of Workshop participants who are as good as many who are being published but haven't had… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
I write sentence to sentence. That's the kind of writer I am. I don't have a plot when I begin. I have… — Lorraine Adams Copy Share Image
Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
You could figure out at least 80 percent of the context and meaning of a text if people used punctuation, and we… — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
Of all literature I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was Philosophy and Opinions of… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
Why do I love writing? I can be who I want, do what I want, hurt who I want, and make the… — Mark Rubinstein Copy Share Image
If I were running a campaign, I'd urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
When I'm out and about, I'll text or email myself from my phone. A smart phone is a great tool for a… — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became… — Daniel Goldstein Copy Share Image
Write 1000 words a day. That's only about four pages, but force yourself to do it. Put your finger down your throat… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I am afraid of writing, too, because when I write I am always moving toward the unarticulated, the dangerous, the place where… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
“...and always the cutting out and the buggering about and the buggering about and the rewriting and so on...” — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
After all, I believe it is the style of thought entirely, and the style of expression, which makes the difference in books. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“Reading takes you on a wonderful journey to places you have probably never been. Sit back and enjoy your journey.” — Marjorie Taylor Copy Share Image
When I write something down it doesn't look funny to me. It's about the environment, it's all in the moment. — John Bishop Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“...one of the main purposes of our assesment is to find evidence of the children using these ideas to make decisions about… — Katie Wood Ray Copy Share Image
“I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment of the fork.… — Virginia Euwer Wolff Copy Share Image
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