Were writing, yes, but really slow ... We mainly get together and end up hanging out, and half the time nothing gets… — Isaac Brock Copy Share Image
Good writing is often about trying to investigate something you feel is missing and trying to put it back. — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
“Picture books build readers, Mr. Leon. Two missing books from our collection is like two missing bricks from a cathedral.” — Kristin O'Donnell Tubb Copy Share Image
“The elevator doors opened, and I squeezed myself out before pulling out the Wardrober. It was heavy. “What do you have in… — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
“I noticed you made a bee-line for their bookcases." It is the oldest and most incorrigible trait of the book-lover.” — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
You don't go to the library and walk along and pick out a topic. You are riding the bus, or shopping at… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
When I was eight I discovered 'The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe' by C S Lewis and it made me fall… — Tony Hadley Copy Share Image
When I look back at my career as an author, I don't look at the first book that was ever published as… — Jarrett J. Krosoczka Copy Share Image
“This is what you do when you journal. You are recording God’s grand, epoch-spanning redemptive story as it unfolds in your limited,… — Adam L. Feldman Copy Share Image
Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“We tend to believe that if we could just change our workplace, get married, finish writing that novel, buy a new car… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“You think you have no ‘talent’? Write anyway. lots of people with ‘talent’ don’t actually act on it. As long as you… — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
What you are lies with you. If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
Where would the memoir be without bipolar writers? I mean, that's what - that whole oversharing thing is really a very clear… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the beginning of,… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
“I never knew why or how writing could be so important until I learned about the no-talking rule and found that writing… — Karol Jackowski Copy Share Image
Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
As a kid, I liked making up stories, and I wrote a story about a kangaroo and a bat with Christy Chang,… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my… — Kajol Copy Share Image
I rather envy writers who do variations on a theme. I like reading those books, but in practice, I can't do it. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“What is your dissertation, Ilana Davita?” “Babel and Camus: Twists of Fate and Faith. Babel’s The Red Cavalry and Camus’s The Stranger.” — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“Writing without responsibility is like taking out your cloths in public and begging people to not look at you.” — M.F.Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Schools, including universities, must insist upon the prestige of reading and especially of reading old books. — George F Will Copy Share Image
I had a Kindle for a brief while, but I dropped it in the ocean, and that was the end of electronic… — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
“A few books well chosen, and well made use of will be more profitable than a great confused Alexandrian library.” — Thomas Fuller Copy Share Image
“Stella scribbled in thick black texta across half the pages of my best storybook, filled with people who ventured where their hearts… — Emma Cameron Copy Share Image
“That day I saw you at the library, after we talked at the bus stop. That day I saw you at the… — Jay McLean Copy Share Image
I like to think - knowing that it's an enabling fiction - of those moments as fragments from a world to come,… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Like a musician expresses himself through music and a writer's expression is in his writings, cooking is my mode of expression. — Ranveer Brar Copy Share Image
You can't be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get 'blocked' make the mistake of thinking… — Martha Grimes Copy Share Image
Writing talent is similar to the art of chatting up a girl. You can improve to a certain degree through practice, but… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't. — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
I've not got any terrible stories of what I had to do to scrabble my way to the top, obviously, because I… — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
“The old nut goes, 'Write what you know,' but often a writer is clearer about what he doesn't know and must learn… — Susan Bell Copy Share Image
We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
I write what feels real. I write things that are informed both by my own experience and by actual history. — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
For so long I didn't have any kind of readership at all - I'd get published, but not read - the idea… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
I had the idea of a boy who was a wizard and didn't yet know what he was. I never sat down… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
