The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“Build your novel one word at a time. Remember that minutes = novels.” — Mercedes M. Yardley Copy Share Image
I don't wake up every day and just write to write. I only write with purpose. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
Memoir is not an act of history, but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case,… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
But nothing has replaced the writer. He or she is still stuck with the same old job of saying something that other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She ran out of space for her libary some time ago, but instead of making the room larger she has opted to… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency.… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Their house had real hardcover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it’s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I'm such a magpie. I'll get halfway through one thing and pick up something else. I always have 5 or 6 books… — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
I'm up at 8:30 every morning, and I write from about 9:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. - with some breaks, of course.… — Sarah Mlynowski Copy Share Image
I think the best thing I ever did was, years before I got the 'Late Night' show, when I first got out… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
“ My name is David, but most peole call me Popcorn. I write breathtaking adventures. I write the way most people think.… — Popcorn Diablo Copy Share Image
I'm very primitive in terms of economics. The kind of new business in which stock gets more valuable because the company grows,… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
You can get rid of the column. It's a little like staying at a hotel; you get used to the shape of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Memoir isn't the summary of a life; it's a window into a life, very much like a photograph in its selective composition.… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
