I want children to be glued to interactive books that encourage singing and dancing. I feel when kids work together it brings… — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is,… — Clifford Allbutt Copy Share Image
“You say you have nothing to write about? How do you find things to talk about? You can write about those things… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Don't come to New York until you've finished a book. It's too expensive. You'll never write anything. You'll spend all your time… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
“Writing is a form of intense thinking that takes a person on a journey into previously uncharted territory of the writer’s mind.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“better? But what would become of me if I didn’t write what I can, however inferior it may be to what I… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I won't usually just sit down to write. I'd have done it in my head already. I visualise a story just like… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
There are loads of novels that I really love, like Haruki Murakami's books, and when I read them, I do think about… — Makoto Shinkai Copy Share Image
“[…]when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen.… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Write 1000 words a day. That's only about four pages, but force yourself to do it. Put your finger down your throat… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became… — Daniel Goldstein Copy Share Image
When I'm out and about, I'll text or email myself from my phone. A smart phone is a great tool for a… — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
If I were running a campaign, I'd urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
Why do I love writing? I can be who I want, do what I want, hurt who I want, and make the… — Mark Rubinstein Copy Share Image
Of all literature I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was Philosophy and Opinions of… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
You could figure out at least 80 percent of the context and meaning of a text if people used punctuation, and we… — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I could give you some names of Workshop participants who are as good as many who are being published but haven't had… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
Books for children get into schools. Committed teachers use books like mine alongside films, non-fiction and fiction to help children investigate and… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
I write sentence to sentence. That's the kind of writer I am. I don't have a plot when I begin. I have… — Lorraine Adams Copy Share Image
Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the fire. — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
“Stop to read good writers who are witty and are fun, 'cause that's the kind of fuel on which your Train of… — Mister Lemur Copy Share Image
Reading opens your mind and helps you understand and empathize with people who are unlike you and outside your breadth of experience. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
“Approaching quietly, she knelt on the carpet at her side, and looked over her little shoulder at her book. It was a… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I always find out after the fact that the books I've been writing were actually some sort of therapy, some sort of,… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
I always try to mix it up with each book - changing tone, changing style keeps the work very vital for me. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The thing is not to write what no one else could have written, but to write what only you could have written.” — Nam Le Copy Share Image
The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside of them," said Meggie...” — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image