I write everything I do. On the average, it takes you about sixty months from the first molecule of an idea to… — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
“read faster and better is the understanding of a text, because the brain has less time for distractions.” — Robert James Copy Share Image
I'm not reading currently because I'm getting revisions of a novel. If I read while I'm writing I will unconsciously plagiarize and… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful … to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
When I ventured into writing at the age of 17, I wanted to be a good and successful writer. I just wanted… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
What was it with people always trying to kill me in the library? Nickamedes so needed to put up warning signs. Danger:… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
I love my books, and with all their dog-ears and under-linings they are irreplaceable, but I sometimes wish they'd just vanish. — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“A novelist is similar to a triathlete. Train hard every day. You will be timed and measured. Budget to promote, grow, and… — Caroline Gerardo Copy Share Image
I think I'm a good writer. I think I have my own voice, which is unique to everyone - everyone has their… — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
I cannot just write a frivolous book, a la-di-da book. Everything isn't la-di-da. There is something that's going to pull you up… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
The hardest part about writing fiction is finding long stretches of time to do it: for me, this means writing mostly on… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I suppose I was interested in checking out as much about writing as I could: bad, weird, irritating,… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
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Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
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You cannot finish a book without closing the chapters. If you want to move on, then you have to leave the past… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
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A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“ToScottie March 11, 1939 p. 387- 388 And please do not leave good books half- finished, you spoil them for yourself...Don't be… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
My earliest memory of books is not of reading but of being read to. I spent hours listening, watching the face of… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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I've always believed that you write to discover what you think. On most subjects, if I'm asked what do I think about… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
“When a dancer performs, melody transforms into a carriage, expressions turn into fuel and spirit experiences a journey to a world where… — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
I think that fanaticism is terrific. As long as you don't have to live with it. Oh, yes, nobody should marry a… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
To practice - write each and every day if possible - then try to attend professional writer's conferences where you can learn… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
Fiorito has all the right stuff. His splendid memoir about his relationship with his dying father belongs on that small shelf with… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
I read a lot, but in comparison to my family, it's nothing. I keep telling them, 'I'm the illiterate of the family.'… — Aditi Rao Hydari Copy Share Image
'Lord of the Flies' is one of my favorite books. That was a big influence on me as a teenager; I still… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
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You could be anybody when you're writing. That's the reason that I'm writing: to be anybody. You can put your feet in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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I'm reading George Saunders's story collection, "Tenth of December." He was my mentor at the University of Syracuse. The stories are mind-blowing… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
Buying new books supports the writer by providing both a royalty and an audience; a writer whose book sells well has a… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
I don't know why I write. If I knew the answer, I probably wouldn't have to. But it is a compulsion. You… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
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