There are twenty-four characters in this book named Max. Let there be an end to this silly business of authors never giving… — Max Shulman Copy Share Image
The biggest achievement is to create silence. I think every real writer who has a passion to do justice to the world… — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
Pico Iyer describes his writing as "intimate letters to a stranger," and I think that is what the writing process is. It… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Books are one thing I love above all else. In a story, I can become anyone, travel any place. In those pages… — Sherry D. Ficklin Copy Share Image
“Of all the myths surrounding academic writing, the fallacy of effortless productivity is among the most persistent.” — Helen Sword Copy Share Image
“Writing makes me hard, like a fisherman, and brown from the heat. Tossing out and reeling in is a job for visionaries… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
Following takes why. Transactions take what. It has to be real. It has to be the same for writing a book. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading literature remains a civilising activity, no matter that it's literature in which people do and say abominable things and the author… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink.… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
Learn to write when you would rather sleep. Learn to exercise this gift of language when no conscious portion of your wits… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Auden, who asked two things of an imagined world-that it be somehow like ours and somehow unlike-would be Ben Marcus's ideal reader,… — Richard Howard Copy Share Image
Often, I write to feel better and to heal - to cope with things that I'm dealing with. I'm either writing to… — Kelela Copy Share Image
“Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn’t shake… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end it's about enriching the lives… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I took notes as they divided the world between those who had stuff taken away from them, and those who took, those… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“In fact a few simple mathematical calculations reveal that if reference librarians were paid at market rates for all the roles they… — Will Manley Copy Share Image
One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
The best advice I can give to any aspiring author is to write every single day. Work at the craft of writing.… — Andrea Davis Pinkney Copy Share Image
I begin every novel with the vow that I will not write about technology, Catholicism, or Hell. As you know, I end… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
Writing isn't something I do, writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“The elevator doors opened, and I squeezed myself out before pulling out the Wardrober. It was heavy. “What do you have in… — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
“I noticed you made a bee-line for their bookcases." It is the oldest and most incorrigible trait of the book-lover.” — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
Good writing is often about trying to investigate something you feel is missing and trying to put it back. — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
“Picture books build readers, Mr. Leon. Two missing books from our collection is like two missing bricks from a cathedral.” — Kristin O'Donnell Tubb Copy Share Image
Were writing, yes, but really slow ... We mainly get together and end up hanging out, and half the time nothing gets… — Isaac Brock Copy Share Image
“I love books. Not just for what they contain. I love them as objects too, as ever-present reminders of what they contain,… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my… — Kajol Copy Share Image
Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
As a kid, I liked making up stories, and I wrote a story about a kangaroo and a bat with Christy Chang,… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
When I was eight I discovered 'The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe' by C S Lewis and it made me fall… — Tony Hadley Copy Share Image
When I look back at my career as an author, I don't look at the first book that was ever published as… — Jarrett J. Krosoczka Copy Share Image
You don't go to the library and walk along and pick out a topic. You are riding the bus, or shopping at… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
Schools, including universities, must insist upon the prestige of reading and especially of reading old books. — George F Will Copy Share Image
“Writing without responsibility is like taking out your cloths in public and begging people to not look at you.” — M.F.Moonzajer Copy Share Image
I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“What is your dissertation, Ilana Davita?” “Babel and Camus: Twists of Fate and Faith. Babel’s The Red Cavalry and Camus’s The Stranger.” — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
I rather envy writers who do variations on a theme. I like reading those books, but in practice, I can't do it. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
You can't be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get 'blocked' make the mistake of thinking… — Martha Grimes Copy Share Image
Like a musician expresses himself through music and a writer's expression is in his writings, cooking is my mode of expression. — Ranveer Brar Copy Share Image
