To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“And even with the book closed, the voices do not stop--there are echoes and reverberations that seem to leap off the pages… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Everything you study, everything you learn, makes you a better writer, because you have more understanding of how things work. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
There are books where you can really see the moral question, which I think we answer every day for ourselves, in every… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
“to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book,… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Against the sustained tick of a watch, fiction takes the measure of a life, a season, a look exchanged, the turning point,… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on… — S. Ansky Copy Share Image
As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
The hardest thing in a novel is time. You've got [a line like] "two weeks later, he woke up with a headache,"… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
“We can trace the communitarian fantasy that lies at the root of all humanism back to the model of a literary society,… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
I love books that give you space to climb inside there. And you have to run to keep up in places, and… — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good. — Steven Bochco Copy Share Image
As a schoolboy, I loved Charles Dickens. His 'David Copperfield' has had the strongest influence on me - I looked up to… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“In a sense, we can tell a lot about anyone by looking at what books, if any, he reads, at what books… — James V. Schall Copy Share Image
“A writer isn’t a writer because he has a membership card but because he writes. How do you know what bright ideas… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
She never said, "No, don't buy that trash," or "Pick a real book." She knew they were all real books. This is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After a while, when the writer is mature, it doesn't really matter - not because of finances but because of reputation. It… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
“There's a big difference between us. I write non-fiction, you write fiction. I write truths that tell lies. You write lies that… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories… — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I'd be a dope to compare my writing with Wallace Stegner's, but that book probably influenced me in ways I didn't even… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
Well, you know, I'm quite a reluctant writer. I'm not someone who set out to be a writer or really wanted to… — Jennifer Westfeldt Copy Share Image
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
As a writer, you're not even at the party when you work in film. At best, you're the one laying out the… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
Le Corbusier is an outstanding writer. His ideas achieved their impact in large measure because he could write so convincingly. His style… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
My parents were in the book business, my brothers still run the Dutton bookstores in Los Angeles, and I've been interested in… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
You see, the contemporary writer must write through his intimations of unease, while trying to elucidate them. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
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