“... but some say that reality is what happens inside a writer's head, and it is fiction which takes place outside it.” — Barry A. Whittingham Copy Share Image
I've always expressed myself best through writing. I've gotten out all of my deepest feelings that way for as long as I… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
“I read the graffiti written on the walls of my brain. Then I use my writing to give it voice so it… — Dick Peterson Copy Share Image
“Books can move people, inspire people, change people's lives, and even impact whole societies. They are certainly worth spending an afternoon with.” — Jan Surasky Copy Share Image
Books are the windows of the truth, but they are not the door; they point out things and yet they do not… — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin Copy Share Image
In the writing, I'm just trying to go deeper, emotionally, and learn more about myself and reveal more and find a way… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Once I’m done with a book, I’m done! I’m just not a sequel kind of girl. By the time I’ve finished a… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Annie Dillard was a pioneer in her Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1974. Among other notable examples… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
When I start writing, the first line might come from reality, but the second and the third one, I have to write… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
“People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“It's little strange, perhaps, to make this claim at such a late date, but Gatsby really is an outstanding novel. I never… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“The library is a whispering post. You don't need to take a book off a shelf to know there is a voice… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
“There is nothing better than being able to swim in a pool of knowledge so deep it forces ignorance to be uncomfortable… — Kaizen Love Copy Share Image
Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I'm like, If you do something dumb, I'll write about it. If you put something out there, to me it's like you're… — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Sometimes I write, but once it's done, I usually find my writing to be so bad that I hide it somewhere and… — Gideon Glick Copy Share Image
“Early retirement, Dalton. Teach yourself to type with your toes and you can start writing your memoirs.” — Mark Allen Smith Copy Share Image
What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window. — Burton Rascoe Copy Share Image
When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Reading is a practice; good reading is a highly sophisticated practice. The practice has to be learnt.” — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
My first attempt at writing a novel was horrible. I had to throw it away. But I stuck with the idea, which… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way I… — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
“Lombardi: [to his assistant] Could you get us some writing paper, please. Eli: A lot of it. A whole lot of it.” — Book of Eli Movie Copy Share Image
Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Our libraries are pillars in the neighborhood - providing vital services, safe spaces to gather, and connections to essential resources. — Cori Bush Copy Share Image
When I was a kid and wanted to grow up to be a writer, I assumed I would be writing about animals… — Sigrid Nunez Copy Share Image
“There is nothing wrong in theorizing and hypothesizing; a writer is not an escapist, he creates a world he would love to… — Kartik Sharma Copy Share Image
A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“...deeper lesson: that the written word isn't necessarily a chore but can be a window into new worlds.” — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
The Stovepipe is a memoir full of laughter and tears and a moving story of sisterly love as well as their will… — Dave Pelzer Copy Share Image
It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right way or… — Eric Van Lustbader Copy Share Image
“i am against electronic books. they make real books obsolete, denying the poor and economically challenged freedom.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories. — Bong Joon-ho Copy Share Image
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