For anyone addicted to reading commonplace books . . . finding a good new one is much like enduring a familiar recurrence… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
If you have a single narrator, a person like an "I" - "'I' did this" and "'I' did that" - it automatically… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
“1-Start writing immediately. 2-Develop your skills through a course and apprenticeship. 3-Desire perfection but be practical. 4-Begin humbly and progress. 5-Develop supportive… — Johnson C. Philip Copy Share Image
Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I really do believe that chance favours a prepared mind. Wallace Stegner, who was one of my teachers when I was at… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I'm afraid my closely guarded solitude causes some hurt feelings now and then. But how to explain, without wounding someone, that you… — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking. All conversations with older people contain repetition. Some of the ideas mean… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want… — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
Before I wrote my first novel, 'The Expats,' I spent nearly two decades at various arms of publishing houses such as Random… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
“Humans need each other for equilibrium and support. But writers must pull aside to take a quiet walk alone, not just for… — Patricia Hickman Copy Share Image
Tobias Buckell combines old world with new in his novel CRYSTAL RAIN. While the rich cultures, drawn in part from Caribbean history… — Karin Lowachee Copy Share Image
A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty.… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
“In the great tradition of Paris Is Burning, bring out your library cards! Because reading is what? Fundamental!” — RuPaul Copy Share Image
Reading helps you to be knowledgeable. It also improvises your vocabulary. It's a very good habit, extremely essential. — Lara Dutta Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
“Gonna pretend to be a deaf mute who knows no sign one day, meet a woman, and we'll write for the rest… — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
Every writer has compressed time and procedure, and used clarifying dialogue. That's not a scandal: it's a legitimate dramatic technique. — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
Today it's almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer with power... I wouldn't hesitate right this minute… — Ida Lupino Copy Share Image
The only way to write a book, I’m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That’s how you write… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Writing is not what you start. It's not even what you finish. It's what you start, finish, and put out there for… — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
Writing grew out of the pleasure of escape. My novels are very much outside of my personal experience. That is why I… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them;… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
“It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications. — Manuel Rivas Copy Share Image
Sometimes I do get writer's block but it's more of a writer's doubt - I'll try and write but nothing goes anywhere… — Robin Pecknold Copy Share Image
There were people who read and there were the others. Whether you were the a reader or a non-reader was soon apparent.… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
I usually write things in my head before I ever write them down. When I write it out, usually I've already figured… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Of course it is very limiting to be labeled a lesbian or queer writer. We live in a homophobic culture, and even… — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
“I intend all my characters must escape from impossible situations; if they are not in trouble, then as a writer, I am.” — Cleveland W. Gibson Copy Share Image
Anybody who puts a book into someone else's hands inspires me - teachers, librarians, booksellers, parents. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
When I finish a first draft, I often look back at first chapters I wrote and laugh at them. They're like pictures… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Writing has been one of the most powerful influences in my life and it always has been since I was a little… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
