Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Writing, is not a race. Is to distill the soul letter by letter in a slow and delicate process that will take… — J.E. Negrete Copy Share Image
So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I'm a person who does not like to journal; I don't like to sit down and write... I don't even like sending… — Tituss Burgess Copy Share Image
My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too. — Andrej Pejic Copy Share Image
I don't really believe in writer's block or anything like that. If I'm not feeling words, I may pick up an instrument… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
We get a better book when everyone's allowed to do their best work on it. I don't want to prevent anybody from… — Brian Azzarello Copy Share Image
A writer needs to write, period. He or she can't wait for the muse, shouldn't need peace and quiet, and isn't entitled… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“If you're a writer, you'll know it by the distinct feeling of only being able to breathe properly when alone with your… — Karen Luellen Copy Share Image
I've known several cases of writers who decide to write about something and they research the hell out of it and when… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
It occurs to me that, after the huge output of writing I've produced over the years, there is a close link between… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
“This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“He was already beginning to understand that what was wrong with his writing was that there was something wrong, something misconceived, about… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Grown-ups shouldn’t finish books they’re not enjoying. When you’re no longer a child, and you no longer live at home, you don’t… — John Irving Copy Share Image
A lot of people who don't write for kids think it's easy, because they think kids aren't as smart as they are,… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
My mother says that some books are good no matter when you read them, and some are good at a particular moment;… — Julie Schumacher Copy Share Image
My mom wasn't, like, she was reading all these historical romance novels the majority of the time. She read a feminist book… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Students need to be reminded that revision isn't merely making a few cosmetic changes. Revision is seeing and then reseeing our words… — Georgia Heard Copy Share Image
I was planning to stay in the Army all my life, but I ended up being posted to a training camp in… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
Plot is not my forte. It's like I have to live in my head in the book for a while before I… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Sometimes heroes were found between the pages of a book, and sometimes they stood on a hill, their checkered togas fluttering in… — Leylah Attar Copy Share Image
I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the… — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
“Finishing a book has massive implications for the writer, an empty head and an empty bank account springs to mind.” — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human… — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I had many different careers early on. I knew I wanted to be a writer. But, like so many people, I didn't… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“The world is condensing, attention spans narrowing to tiny screens, and there are people who are wittier and smarter, who know how… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
I have a low opinion of books: they are piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have… — John Muir Copy Share Image
One constant writing ritual, no matter what I'm writing, is that I cannot write if people are around me. It wigs me… — Jennifer Armentrout Copy Share Image
“Anyhow, my point is that you know now that nonfiction is never the entire truth, and fiction is almost never pure fabrication.” — Ken Andersen Copy Share Image
If you wrote something, you deserve to get paid and recognized for your work. No one should take a bow with another… — Ronald Isley Copy Share Image
Readers re-create any story to suit their own needs. They re-clothe the story in their own shirts. Put simply: just as we… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
I'm not fundamentally a writer. I know writers, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them. It bothers me that… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
All newspaper writers have heard that the stuff they compose today has an excellent chance of being used to wrap tomorrow's mackerel. — Ira Berkow Copy Share Image
I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you… — Pat Morita Copy Share Image
In 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes). — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers. — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
