I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
For some 25 years, I worked as a librarian, first at the New York Public Library, then at Trenton State College in… — Avi Copy Share Image
If any of my plays outlive me or get on library book shelves and somehow stay read, all of a sudden it's… — Quiara Alegria Hudes Copy Share Image
“Fahrenheit 451.” Lucy ran her hand across the cover. The image was bizarre; a man made of pages from a book buried… — Shelbi Wescott Copy Share Image
“A writer, an author or a poet does not write because of a public or herself. She lives by a great youth.” — Petra Hermans Copy Share Image
Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder,… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
One thing I discovered is that the book world is vast. It's easy to walk around the store - even the room… — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“There is no more important homework than reading. Research shows that the highest achieving students are those who devote leisure time to… — Nancie Atwell Copy Share Image
“If a book did nothing else for you, other than to save you from the company of other people; if all it… — Andrew Killeen Copy Share Image
“My gift as a child was writing. It wasn’t that I could write better than everyone else but it was that I… — Tony Gaskins Jr Copy Share Image
“The reader is the space on which all the quotations that make up a writing are inscribed without any of them being… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
There are writers you admire, for the skill or the art, for the inventiveness or for the professionalism of a career well… — James D. Houston Copy Share Image
I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
“We call love what binds us to certain creatures only by reference to a collective way of seeing for which books and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
As I'm writing it, I'm kind of curious to see what's going to happen. It almost feels like I'm the writer and… — Jazmine Sullivan Copy Share Image
“It's a mistake to lie to a librarian, you know. Some people assume we're shy and gullible, but we know how to… — Virginia Lowell Copy Share Image
“People can’t read a book if they don’t know it exists. All authors need to do marketing, regardless of how they published.” — Jo Linsdell Copy Share Image
“When a chapter of your Life Book is complete, your spirit knows its time to turn the page so a new chapter… — Beth Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I can read people like an open book, especially if their named Braille, and I’m in a touchy-feely mood.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
After the show comes out, I don't remember, Oh, it was written like this, and then I added this, because I'm not… — Janelle James Copy Share Image
Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion - and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Read the right books. Learn how those who have preceded you have handled the challenges you are currently facing.” — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
Who knows where the talent goes? Sometimes it goes where the money is. Sometimes I think writers are really interested in the… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
“I am a commercial writer and I'm proud of that. I am writing things to be put in the bookstore next month.… — Michael McDowell Copy Share Image
There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl.… — Barry Sonnenfeld Copy Share Image
I published 'Rules of Civility' while I was still working. It became a best seller. I was working on this book, and… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I have been working in television for quite a long time. In television, the writer is the constant, and the director is… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written… — Adam Clymer Copy Share Image
Books everywhere. On the shelves and on the small space above the rows of books and all along the floor and under… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Write Your Diary daily, write you experiences, your feelings, your truth, your habits. And when You Read it after few years.. you… — Chakshu Aggarwal Copy Share Image
