“I write because one word can change your entire life, then again, why so serious? often times I write for entertainment or… — DeJuan Cuffee Copy Share Image
If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others — William Gibson Copy Share Image
You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
People and places are the twin pillars on which most nonfiction is built. Every human event happens somewhere, and the reader wants… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I'm always writing, even when I'm not at my desk. I write on my hands. I used to write on my kids'… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The story goes that I first had the idea for The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy while lying drunk in a field… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
With a novel, you have the reader with you a lot longer, and you owe him a lot more. Obviously you have… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concerned, I am a… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
Some writers just write about their own lives. Well, I don't want to do that. I want to have a really boring… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I'm one of those writers who started off writing novels and came to writing short stories later, partly because I didn't have… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“we read fiction to satisfy a more basic need—to imagine our way into other lives, to explore characters and situations that tell… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
If people only knew what lies at the heart of my novels! What a tumult of desires these carefully written pages conceal!… — Julien Green Copy Share Image
“If people knew how powerful books were, they’d all have one in their hand or a tablet loaded full of e-books, just… — Terry Schott Copy Share Image
The best pastimes for a true enjoyer of leisure who has to stay at home . . .: reading by the fireside. . . . Listening to music. — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
“Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction… We regain the world by withdrawing from it just a little… — David Ulin Copy Share Image
“If you turned in a paper with writing on it, you were guaranteed a hook from Jake Epping of the LHS English… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Because a boy who could read would sooner or later come upon some book that would give him an idea, and a… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it's moving forward. I'm sure that's the case. The only problem is that I'm… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
Nearly every politician plagiarizes their speeches, because nearly every politician has a speech writer do the work for them. — Ana Kasparian Copy Share Image
Sometimes I pick up a book and I say: Well, so you've written it first, have you? Good for you. O.K., then… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The only real people are the people who never existed, and if a novelist is base enough to go to life for… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Let the pleasure of doodling led us to writing as decoration rather than to the peculiarly abstract sort of representation it inclines… — Robert Kaplan Copy Share Image
“the best known authors of children's books of our times. See flap of this wrapper for complete list of titles. GROSSET &… — Arthur Scott Bailey Copy Share Image
“I'm just not in a writing mood, but I keep going. What if the garbage man were not in a garbage mood?… — JeanNicole Rivers Copy Share Image
“As it turns out, business writing is all about getting to the point and leaving out all of the noise. You think… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to… — Mary Archer Copy Share Image
At some point, my body will collapse. But I hope that my brain will still be working so that I can carry… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
One of the great perks of being a writer is that you can work when you're mentally capable of it, not when… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
'Irma Voth' is my sixth book, but it's only the third time I've featured Mennonite settings and characters. — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never have I sought a cure, and my… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been… — James Frey Copy Share Image
I'm interested in telling stories that add up to more than the entertainment of the story. That's what does it for me. — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
