Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
“Paranormal suspense and romance together in one non-stop rollercoaster of passion and adventure. - Love Romance Passion” — Terry Spear Copy Share Image
I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way… — Al Seckel Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“Writing is like surfing on a wild sea, in the middle of a moonless night, in a hailstorm, on a deserted island.… — Heena Rathore P Copy Share Image
When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“I know from personal experience that readers lead richer lives, more lives, than those who don’t read.” — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
Where are they written?" "In the world around us. Merely be attentive to what happens in your life, and you will discover… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When I'm putting a story together, I generally know the ending and a couple of the points halfway through, and I've got… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
If someone's going to publish a book about addiction, it has to say something new and different. It has to be something… — Charles Adams Copy Share Image
My writing process is chaos. I usually start with an overarching theme. Then I establish several story threads, but I don't outline.… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“It's a funny thing, really, me publishing a book… I've had so many people tell me it was stupid or impossible or… — Molly Lynn Robinson Copy Share Image
A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the… — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
I always tell my students to write the story all the way through, not to play with the language and fall in… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like… — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
Most books are surplus to the world's requirements, and I am going to sound very conceited here, but I am trying to… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
Most writers seem to prefer the morning, or they feel at their best in the morning. Ideas are popping into your head… — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
I don't keep any copy of my books around... they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them… — Ludwig Bemelmans Copy Share Image
People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Literature provides us with experiences it would not be wise or possible to introduce into our own world and thus enlarges our… — Louise Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Fiction is often most powerful when the author is exploring an issue - and not writing like a know-it-all who has the… — Gillian Cross Copy Share Image
Talking to Lee Child and discovering, from his chapter in The Chopin Manuscript, that he's even more of an audio geek than… — David Hewson Copy Share Image
A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things. — James Salter Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I'm able to write books and still carry on with other work is that I do my best… — Catherine Mayer Copy Share Image
“Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams. They are journeys you can make to the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Once you've got a child to the point that they've discovered books, they're safe. There's a world of the imagination that when… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
Reading and writing... are exciting. The most exciting things I can think of. And now, as I reflect... I have to say… — Clive James Copy Share Image
A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional… — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
If you lead a simple life, and that story is written, then that story will not satisfy. It needs an angle. Suppose… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
“The point of dreams was never to be the affordable option, it was the one everyone else saw as a mistake and… — Anastasia Bolinder Copy Share Image
I really looked up to Tina Fey as a writer, and because I did have a background in writing, she is someone… — Nasim Pedrad Copy Share Image
“I like books. I thought you liked books." "Let's be honest, Rudy, books are pornography for brains. All that subtext and bullshit… — Hannah Moskowitz Copy Share Image
“At times, I have been convinced that books hold all the material of life--at least all the stuff that fits between an… — Abelardo Morell Copy Share Image
We possess books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and… — David L. Ulin Copy Share Image
I feel comfortable in my own skin writing about the things that I like because I know that there are other people… — Shooter Jennings Copy Share Image
When I'm reading a book and someone asks me what I'm reading, I don't answer. I just raise book up, so they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Possibly, then, writing has to do with darkness, and a desire or perhaps a compulsion to enter it, and, with luck, to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
