Wherever a writer grew up, they're obviously influenced by that area, and I'm sure their characters are pulled from those experiences. — Jim Rash Copy Share Image
I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes.… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“His elegant librarianship ... made me appreciate how order is created: Not through grand schemes - to which I was often drawn… — Avi Steinberg Copy Share Image
I only make notes, I don't write dialogues in full. And the notes are very much based on my knowledge of person. — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
“I want people who write to crash or dive below the surface, where life is so cold and confusing and hard to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close… — Patty Duke Copy Share Image
“Few things contain and impact the immediacy of cultural impress so evocatively as books, and not only through their ideas. A book… — William Everson Copy Share Image
“In books we have the compendium of all human experience. We may use them or neglect them as we will, but if… — Sir Basil Blackwell Copy Share Image
“Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thoughts in a manner all their own, and I;m convinced that the shattered… — Frank Bruni Copy Share Image
“That’s not my concern just now. This man—” “Grayson Thane,” Brianna supplied, more than grateful the topic had turned away from their… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“Kyle was busy helping Holmes figure out that the Red-Headed League was just a clever ploy pulled by some robbers to get… — Chris Grabenstein Copy Share Image
Robert Scott Leyse channels Baudelaire's Queen of Spades and Jack of Hearts, speaking darkly of dead loves, in this new book. He… — Kris Saknussemm Copy Share Image
I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
The show was number one in the ratings, Gordon Russell was our head writer, the story lines were magnificent and the acting… — Michael Storm Copy Share Image
Writing my own diary is the best form of remembrance, but only for my own use. I need these notes; it's like… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The Sound of Building Coffins is a soulful work from a writer of the weird. Maistros does more than make you feel… — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
You go to New York or L.A., and every waiter wants to be a writer, director or actor. But there's a common… — Gillian Alexy Copy Share Image
Writing books takes a long time, and one thing a writer must do is learn to live with his or her project. — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
I got my first whiff of what big-time adult literature was all about when I was in 8th grade. I got it… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it. — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is based is my favorite… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
No Time For Goodbye is a deliciously smart thriller, full of surprises and perfect pacing. I'm jealous I didn't write it. — Alafair Burke Copy Share Image
The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, when they are put up against insurmountable… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The process of writing has always started for me when I put myself in a place where no one distracts me. — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
Creative nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and often more accessible. — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Writing is a good example of self-abandonment. I never completely forget myself except when I am writing and I am never more… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Beware that the one who reads is the same as the book, the same as what is read, the same as the… — Mohammed Dib Copy Share Image
Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
I surround myself with books, kind of hoping the vast knowledge will just seep into my mind through osmosis. — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
I'm a writer of fiction. I try to write about my time, but it's dangerous if I'm seen as an investigative writer.… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
“...if you've got writer's block, you aren't empty - maybe it's just like Twitter - overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
